Reddit Engineers Right Now

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Reddit Engineers Right Now

production-memes, testing-memes, devops-memes, debugging-memes, users-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Nothing says "we've given up" quite like pushing untested code at 4:16 AM. The classic "users as QA testers" approach – the cornerstone of modern software development! Why pay for a testing team when millions of users will find your bugs for free? It's not a production outage, it's just an interactive bug hunt with real-world consequences. Reddit's recent API changes and outages suddenly make a lot more sense...

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