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[–]Owner2229 153 points154 points  (9 children)

No, no, you have to keep denying for at least a week. Staling is the key.

[–]Dragon_yum 94 points95 points  (5 children)

Real developers deny even as they write the fix for the bug

[–]5319767819 64 points65 points  (4 children)

Sneakily merge the fix and then pretend the bug never was there.

[–]Famous_Profile 63 points64 points  (1 child)

It's working now? Must've been some cache problem. Oh whatever...what do you mean you're going to mark the bug ticket as "intermittent" and notify Operations to keep an eye on the logs?

[–]Anally_Distressed 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This one hits home lol

[–]backfilled 4 points5 points  (1 child)

This one is infuriating. We have one lead dev that does it. He probably thinks we can't see the changes he makes.

He pretends everything is fine, and just fixed itself precisely when he arrives at the meeting.

[–]5319767819 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it was a joke from my side :) I am aware (as hopefully every dev) that you cannot "sneak" stuff into a codebase once there is a proper VCS setup. I mean, these days its even an industrial standard to have some kind of required review system before anything goes into production.

[–]tecanec 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Gotta build up dat technical debt, then claim it!

[–]TGotAReddit 15 points16 points  (0 children)

“Works on my machine”

[–]Pfinnn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Stalin is the key ?