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by patates 249 days ago
What started as a "this should be just a few namespace changes" might have cost thousands of person days in my current job. So many tests red, the whole CI/CD broken, and when all "fixed" and done, there were still some uncaught production bugs haunting us for many months... Simply horrible.

On paper, it really was just a few changes. In practice, it forced a massive transitive dependency and technical debt cleanup for many companies.