the english syntax of this article gave me an aneurysm. was this ai?
Yeah I got two or three sentences in and just closed the window.
I took a look at the “coder” and said no thanks.
Buffalo.
I’m struggling to understand this story.
I get the idea. But the way it was written has a “I heard from a guy who did a thing that looked like this…”
Maybe it’s written that way to protect the privacy/trade secrets. But it also makes it hard to have any takeaways beyond why a dev team approved of pushing code like this to prod with minimal testing.
Unabashed plug for GnuCash. It’s FOSS, double-entry, and capable enough for oddball personal finances or business finance, with all the spreadsheet exporting one might need.
That’s a process error, not an individual’s fault. Sounds like not a single person reviewed the code, they just said, “sounds good, deploy!” on a major production system.
You can be certain that there are tons of other bugs in the system that just have more subtle effects.
Someone wanted the Milton life.
It’s like Superman III
