The Python Mafia

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That code is what happens when you tell a developer "we need to save space" but forget to mention "code readability" as a requirement. Single-letter variables, no comments, and recursive calls that would make even the Python interpreter question its life choices. The smirking girl in front of the disaster is all of us watching our colleagues defend their "optimized" code during code review while the codebase burns in the background. Remember kids, the next person to read your code might know where you live.

Content Hand-writing a set of both normal test cases and edge test cases Assuming the end-user won't do anything too crazy, and only writing normal test cases Creating a program that generates random test cases Hand-writing test cases for the program that randomly generates test cases Writing a program to generate test cases for the program that generates test cases Assuming your code is perfect to begin with, and not writing anv test cases at all

Content My team's intern just found a critical bug by shitposting in our codebase So our summer intern (who I'm 90 sure is a professional shitposter moonlighting as a dev) just saved our entire authentication service by being, well, an absolute agent of chaos. Background: We have this legacy auth system that's been running since before TikTok existed. No one touches it. It's documented in ancient Sanskrit and COBOL comments. The last guy who understood it fully left to become a yoga instructor in Peru. Enter our intern. First week, he asks why our commit messages are so boring. Starts adding memes to his. Whatever, right? Then he begins leaving comments in the codebase like: This function is older than me and probably pays taxes TODO: Ask if this while loop has health insurance Here lies Sarah's hopes and dreams (2019-2022), killed by this recursive call The senior devs were split between horrified and amused. But here's where it gets good. He's reading through the auth code (because "the commit messages here are too normal, sus") and adds this gem: yo why this token validation looking kinda thicc though fr fr no cap this base64 decode bussin wait... hold up... this ain't bussin at all Turns out his Gen Z spider-sense wasn't just tingling for the memes. Man actually found a validation bypass that's been lurking in our code since Obama's first term. The kind of bug that makes security auditors wake up in cold sweats. The best part? His Jira ticket title: "Auth be acting mad sus rn no cap frfr (Critical Security Issue)" The worst part? We now have to explain to the CEO why "no cap frfr" appears in our Q3 security audit report. The absolute kicker? Our senior security engineer's official code review comment: "bestie... you snapped with this find ng" I can't tell if this is the peak or rock bottom of our engineering culture. But I do know our intern's getting a return offer, if only because I need to see what he'll do to our GraphQL documentation.