I needed to hear this today. Today I was presenting a training session on some advanced modelling techniques to a group of users who usually only meet once a y

I needed to hear this today. Today I was presenting a training session on some advanced modelling techniques to a group of users who usually only meet once a year, and had tested the demo to death over the preceeding months. I'm aware much of the process relies on how tight the string between the two cans is pulled, and do my best to work around it. Just last week our main dev for modelling, who had written the code in the MOD-L language, did a mic drop and left. Last night a patch was pushed out to users that updated their modelling program, and caused the xml output structure to vary. This morning, at about 3am during some last minute testing I discover that this means nobodies models will run when we import them into the new stuff today, except a backup model I had saved. So, we went from a live demo and potential UAT session, to "look at this shiny thing we built for you, but you can't have". Shoestring, bubblegum, string joined tin cans, and a legacy of R&D that pretends to be production but is actually just a noose, hangman, and gallows in a peppa pig costume.