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technical debt (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"You're overthinking it" - real response from my management

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago

"True. It'll be perfectly fine, and because of that, you won't need me on call when it all goes dramatically wrong. If you need access to the repo, I'll add you in though. Good luck."

Or, if you've worked together a while "like I overthought it when we worked on x, and y went wrong, and I called it before it happened. Turns out I'm quite good at seeing car crashes in advance."