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Yeah I mean, that guy learned a valuable lesson that day. Bet he never did that again.
I once deleted a whole web server that was serving like a dozen e-commerce clients. I blame digital ocean. Both cloning and deleting had you write the servers name to confirm. Come on. Jfc. The options were adjacent.
Anyways, yep. I double check every clone/delete operation that might possibly disrupt prod ever since.
That's why my current boss preferes typo's over bugs. The complete opposit of my former job where they always considered burning you down to the ground for a typo. The latter makes you search for fake causes and does nothing for long term quality improvement.
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