Programmer's Day: looking for fun and horror stories from a developer's life
Code base disappeared shortly before customer appointment? Checked in the wrong code? We are looking for Shocking Shorts from software development.
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- Rainald Menge-Sonnentag
Today, September 13, is Programmer's Day, which takes place on the 256th day of the year – In 2024, it was already on September 12. We are using this day of remembrance as an opportunity to give developers a stage for their stories.
Shocking shorts: terrifying moments in development
Every developer knows those scary moments: the server crash when the customer is at the door, the test script that accidentally ends up in production code. Or has a comment like
// When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing.
// Now, God only knows.remained in the public code during the push?
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AI makes everything easier – even the failures
Copilot, Cursor, Codeium and co. help with routine tasks and fixing code. Occasionally, however, they create bizarre functions or make nasty mistakes. And AI has apparently not only learned how to code from humans, but also how to comment, as collections of Copilot comments show.
For the Day of the Programmer, we are looking for the best shocking shorts and funny experiences from everyday life as a developer – with and without AI. You are welcome to share your stories as comments in the forum for this post.
Day for programmers and developers
The Day of the Programmer has its roots in Russia in 2002, where two employees of Parallel Technologies proposed it and it has been an official day of remembrance since 2009. In English, it is known both as Day of the Programmer and Programmers' Day. It always takes place on the 256th (28) day of the year. In China, not only New Year's Day but also Remembrance Day has a different date. There it is on October 24, which is written in numerical notation with the leading month as 1024, which corresponds to 210.
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