[Terr_]

I like the phrase "Self-unfulfilling prophecy", for when a prediction that is acted-upon often invalidates its future.

There's also this annoying catch-22 which may be familiar to IT staff:

1. Things go wrong: "What do we even pay you for?"

2. Things go right: "What do we even pay you for?"

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AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-defeating_prophecy

[ASalazarMX]

And this is why everything goes in writing.

[sangnoir]

...and 24 years later, after the paperwork has been filed away, someone will still write that the problem never existed. Y2K minimization and anti-vaxx sentimental are 2 symptoms of problems solved so successfully, the magnitude of the problem disappears from the collective consciousness.

[smegger001]

and then 2038 unix epoc will happen and this time everything is computerized and as cloudstrike showed no one bothers to test any of it anymore. Oops

[Doxin]

Place I used to work had a cycle of "Everything is working. We don't need quite this much IT staff." and "Everything is broken. Clearly we need more IT staff."

How the people in charge of this stuff never noticed the cycle is beyond me.