Also, I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I'll say it again:

Part of your job as a senior is to tell your juniors about your fuckups. The embarrassing cringe reckless and lazy bullshit that you did when you were new, and the various times you brought down Prod. We ALL did it sometime. And then tell them: the moment you realized you fucked up, I know, the impulse is to try and cover it up, but don't do it. Come to the seniors you trust, and they'll help you unfuck it, and fight management tooth and claw like mamma and pappa bears to defend you from any shitheads in management. Because that's what our seniors did to us.

@JessTheUnstill There are lessons here! Like, uncommitted transactions can really screw things up, but sometimes they save your butt! And, well, I took down a rather significant chunk of a (well, at least once) well-known website by creating XML output with an unescaped ampersand (“&" rather than “&”) for a little while. Got a talking to, wiped the egg off my face, learned a lot about validating and sanitizing inputs https://xkcd.com/327/
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