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by potta_coffee 2760 days ago
There's a surface level understanding of what it does but nobody really understands how many of the large features really work, or what the actual rules are that govern them. Yes, much of this is black box. Example: yesterday I had to try to figure out what branch of code was compiled and deployed to our server. Everyone had assumed it was the Master branch, but no...deploying that branch fubared everything. I finally found the "working" branch of code.