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People on this forum often "joke" about dropping the production database as a rite of passage for noobs
by TrololoTroll 3y ago
People on this forum often "joke" about dropping the production database as a rite of passage for noobs
- jader201 3y ago> as a rite of passage for noobs I’ve been in the field for nearly 30 years. I’m far from incapable of such screwups.
- deusum 3y agoBeing a pro means you can fix anything you break - preferably before anyone noticies
- sophacles 3y agoI would hope that your experience has at least decreased the time between "first hearing about wierdness" and "realizing you accidnetally dropped prod". It's why pay generally increases with experience :D.
- markusde 3y agoThe difference is, a junior employee knows that killing prod is bad. An LLM doesn't know anything.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoAnd we only do it once (I didn't kill the db, but I did kick off a process thinking I was in a test environment).
- Anamon 3y agoWere you the guy sending test push notifications from Firebase to all users of Xperia phones last year? :D
- blihp 3y agoDon't be so sure that all, or even most, junior employees know any such thing. I've seen junior employees fired for doing silly things in prod before[1] [1] Of course whatever more senior bozo granted the junior the rights to blow up the thing(s) they did should have been fired instead. That's not the way things work in the corporate world.
- gopher_space 3y agoI like getting juniors into situations where they can blow up a db since it's the perfect introduction to backups.
- TrololoTroll 3y agoThem knowing that it is bad isn't much of a consolation for the dead production The magic that happen in someone's mind that leads to their actions matters very little for everyone else. Their actions and the consequences of their actions are what everyone else actually cares about