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Even my own code sometimes. (lemmy.world)

submitted 23 hours ago by slazer2au@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That exact chain of events happened to me at my last job and I audibly laughed realising it was my own code. To my own credit though, it was a file I had written four years prior which at that point was more than half my whole career in the past

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago

If you aren’t ashamed of your work a year ago, you’re stagnating!