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One of our engineers made a PR at 3AM last night, with the description "Had a dream where delete action was miss-clicked instead of csvexport. So removing the option from action list. Prefer this dream to never come true" Do not underestimate nightmare-driven development

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Nightmare-driven development is real. While building a server management tool I kept imagining someone misclicking something destructive. Those "3AM what if" scenarios often lead to safer designs.

The author of this post is in OH&S and is figuring out how to help calculate the overtime for working while sleeping