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You just shipped a feature that added over ONE MILLION lines of code to the codebase. You're basically a productivity god at this point. The Jira board is GREEN. Management is THRILLED. Your commit graph looks like Mount Everest.
Then you check the test coverage and it dropped by 24%. TWENTY. FOUR. PERCENT. Your soul just left your body. That tiny red number is somehow more terrifying than the massive green one is impressive. Because you KNOW what's coming: the passive-aggressive Slack message from the tech lead, the failed CI/CD pipeline, and the existential dread of realizing you just created a million new places for bugs to hide.
The ratio of glory to terror has never been more unbalanced. Welcome to modern software development, where your greatest achievement is also your biggest nightmare.
