Comment by simonw
9 days ago
Not sure what you mean. I was being serious: it was genuinely fascinating watching it do all manner of weird hacks to help it come up with what ended up as a two line fix.
"Fascinating" doesn't mean I think it was justified in going to those lengths. I was a little horrified when I realized how far it was going.
I hire an expensive office manager. Recently, the water dispenser tank ran dry. The employee immediately called a plumber. After laying entirely new pipes all the way to the dispenser, the plumber realized he couldn't actually hook them up because the tank lacks a direct inlet. Undeterred, he spent the next few hours scouring every floor of the building, calling the local water treatment facility, and ringing up the water tank manufacturer. Ultimately, he discovered a fresh tank sitting in the supply room on his own floor and swapped it out. All on company’s dime. I write an article and call this employee relentlessly proactive. Praise them a bunch and in the fine print, mention that I’m “a little horrified”.
Next up, we call an unprotected route to all users’ order list in the backend “relentlessly transparent”. A race condition? “Relentless perseverance”.