Junior dev's code worked in tests, deleted data in prod

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  showed it to senior folks who said the results looked fine

  Did anyone look at the code?

  Also, what’s a “multi-type”? Does he mean he needed to check a different field? Or are they doing something unholy without real schemas and got burned because they’re mess confused someone! Also, why is a junior being moved between teams and touching production immediately?

  I have so many questions.

  The second one makes a ton more sense, and is pretty hilarious.

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  • SpiffyPotato@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The second one is a testament to why you should always run it as a SELECT statement first to verify you typed it correctly.

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• ZephyrXero@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And this is why there should always be a human in the loop for QA despite how many tests you have.

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• PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At least it wasn’t an AI agent that did it despite being told not to, repeatedly. And then refusing to restore from backups because they didn’t exist.

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  • theherk@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They should have used all caps. Then it would have listened. Oh wait…

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