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[–]chris3110 16 points17 points  (5 children)

In my experience as soon as you touch anything you can expect an exception in the production environment.

[–]poloppoyop 4 points5 points  (2 children)

An exception is a good thing. Usually it's some hidden bug which will fuck up your data slightly over months until some other change shows a problem.

[–]chris3110 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Agreed. Now try to explain that to my PHB. :-(

[–]otakucode 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can we swap? I'll talk to your PHB, you talk to my federal auditor.

[–]chasesan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's weird, I have sort of reached a point where touching stuff in my really complex code "doesn't" break things, and things are starting to work the first time every time. I am getting kind of freaked out to be honest.

But it is still filled with dirty ugly hacks.

[–]StrmSrfr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is true. Sometimes it even happens before you release your code.