this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
1704 points (98.9% liked)

Programmer Humor

32588 readers
1351 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I would be absolutely amazing at this job, I do this naturally, I am inescapably an agent of chaos.

[–] hakase@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The problem there is that you have to know exactly what you've done to mess it up in order to fix the bug, and when I fuck up my system, I usually have no idea what I did.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

You could just blame the devs for incomplete logging.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I work in QA, my colleague is exactly this guy. Breaks everything without even trying. Doesn't even have much of an IT background, but man he's good at breaking things.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

It can be a good job if you go for a lead position. Then you're designing tests basically.