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Dealing with YOLO Vibelord colleagues (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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So my manager today asked me if I could stay later when there's broken things in prod, and then today his star dream employee yolo'ed a full stack change into prod without review. It's fucking massive and implements new API endpoints, touches >20 files. Many of the diffs are too large to render in the browser.

It's almost comical, but something immediately broke.

Most of my day, I'm digging through code to identify bugs created from this shit, just to get a stealth merge midday.

I kind of don't know what to do.

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Adding to that, about the "stealth merge", couldn't it be just the rollback? Don't change what works, as the saying goes.

And expanding on the meeting or post mortem idea, take this time not to fix the code, but to make an essay showing what broke, how it broke, and how it could be avoided in the future. Also preferably not letting your tone getting acid or those hearing from the company could instinctively refuse to listen to you even if your points are solid.

[–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If only there was some way of reverting the merge commit and redeploying.