How a ‘bad’ coder accidentally made our system bulletproof
https://medium.com/@devlink/how-one-bad-coder-made-our-stack-unbreakable-2ec28d7e4253
This person, let’s call him Dave, wasn’t just junior. Dave was entropy in human form. If there was a weak spot in the system, Dave would find it not on purpose, just as a side effect of existing.

We called him the worst programmer on the team.
But we were wrong.

Because Dave didn’t just write questionable code he revealed where our system was weak, fragile, and totally unprepared for real-world chaos.

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