> Manager: And we can just prevent it with an extra regex rule in the front end code? > Engineer Alice: ... Yes. irrepressibly existential sigh The answer is "

> Manager: And we can just prevent it with an extra regex rule in the front end code? > Engineer Alice: ... Yes. irrepressibly existential sigh The answer is "no", though. This exchange sounds like the decision was between "fixing it cleanly" and "fixing it with a hack", which is roughly equivalent with fixing the problem at the expense of technical debt. But this change does not fix the problem at all.