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by iamnafets 1485 days ago
I generally feel the same way, but just to steel man the argument: would your manual code review process have caught this issue?

Sometimes we compare new things against their hypothetical ideal rather than the status quo. The latter is significantly more tractable.

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> would your manual code review process have caught this issue?

On a one character code change? I’m inclined to think so.