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I wonder if this was made by AI or a shit programmer (gregtech.eu)
submitted 3 days ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's not a "senior developer." That's a developer that has just been around for too long.

Secrets shouldn't be in configurations, and developers shouldn't be mucking around in production, nor with production data.

[–] josefo@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago

That's just a senile developer

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah the whole config thing in that project was an eldritch horror of a legacy, too ingrained in both the services and tooling to be modified without massive rewrites