Spite/Fury has been a good one for me in the past, in addition to those.
“How in the fuck was this ever allowed to get to this point? There’s no way we can keep up with this unless we change the approach. I’m automating this shit whether they like it or not.”
Write an entire chunk of code to handle some edge case that shouldn’t exist, but does because people are stupid and make typos on critical shit, in one single frustration fuelled fugue state.
Panic and adrenaline are the only things that motivate us I fear.
Spite/Fury has been a good one for me in the past, in addition to those.
“How in the fuck was this ever allowed to get to this point? There’s no way we can keep up with this unless we change the approach. I’m automating this shit whether they like it or not.”
Write an entire chunk of code to handle some edge case that shouldn’t exist, but does because people are stupid and make typos on critical shit, in one single frustration fuelled fugue state.
I will spend more time automating shit than just doing the thing that I decided to automate.
I swear to god. It’s a sickness 😂
I have this printed out at work and at home specifically to try and help counter that. Can’t really say that it’s working though, lol.
https://xkcd.com/1205
I usually have to argue in terms of time savings from eliminating surface for human error.