[at-fates-hands]

I was in high school in the early aughts. There were a number of stories of my friends Dad's and college aged brothers fixing Y2K bugs.

I remember my best friends older brother saying the same thing. "Well, this isn't a perfect solution, but it will give us about 20 years to figure it out." and then he chuckled quite a bit.

Essentially, my reaction was they got paid to make sure the software avoided breaking, not fixing the core problem. There were so many software programs that were affected, companies didn't have time to completely fix them. Most knew it was just a patch to avoid a major set back financially.