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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago

That's how to make a career. If you never make any mistakes, you're invisible. Don't do it too often though, or you'll eventually get promoted to management.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, most people who break things while they make changes will swear up and down that their change didn't break anything.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 13 hours ago

I find it worse when they swear that they didn't do anything at all. The changes just happened spontaneously.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Those people are almost as bad as the junior devs that are very confidently incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Even worse? Senior devs that are confidently incorrect but are trusted completely because they created an "amazing" VBA macro for Excel 97 once.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Note that this also applies to politicians.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

If it didn't happen, management may ask what is your value.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It really depends on the situation. There are times, where it's better to let it play out exactly like this.

99% of the time though, it's best practice for me to announce my error, before anyone affected knows what hit them.