Something that I absolutely hate about the IT industry:

When a feature is deployed the chain is like this:

Dev -> Testers -> QA -> Product Manager -> End User

But when things break in production and management wants to yell at the staff... only the devs get the heat and no one else, as if they weren't responsible for anything at all.

Really fucking hate it.

I'm having an exact this moment..the whole chain of QA and project management was twiddling thumbs for pretty much a year and now I have to fix a ton of stuff because no one else did their job

One thing I’ve learned after 2 decades of working hands-on IT jobs - never, ever take a “rubber meets the road”job. Be an evangelist, agilest, innovation specialist, manager, etc. Develop as few lines of code or implement as few systems as possible. Learn to talk acronym hype lingo and get a sweet gig doing nothing, taking all the credit, and never having a single defect assigned to your name. Next steps - take my own advice!!!

Hey dickhead did they ever event gps tech that can't be interfered with so easily ? I keep getting the same blind spots in specific locations

There is a solution, test your own shit both automatically and manually before it ever lands in a QA's hands.

Test for edge cases and weird shit as part of your process, understand the business users / customers and the bullshit they'll throw at your feature, and prepare for the worst.

Yes it's more overhead, yes its a royal pain in the ass, and yes it slows down releases somewhat, and then you'll only have to deal with behavioural changes with the users and not rip out a feature, spin it around 40 times and shove it back in its hole upside down every time.

@C0D4 this sounds like a solution for a world where pressure isn't put on devs for immediate results to justify high salaries instead of doing things correctly the first time

@AvatarOfKaine change is slow, management will always want more, give it to them in quality not quantity.

@C0D4 rewatching American Playboy ever seen?