Dev rant: How a one-line fix turned into a massive rewrite
SIGKITTEN · x · 2026-08-29
A developer set lyrics to the common coding nightmare: attempting to change a single line of code, but getting bogged down by layers of wrappers and mocks, resulting in a 2000-line rewrite that still has bugs and prevents shipping.
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