Tab to accept
Since the summer an agent has written most of my code, which has made me a lot faster and has also taken the part of the job I liked best.
Nobody demos an upgrade
The best possible outcome of a migration is that nothing happens, which looks exactly the same from the outside as having done nothing at all.
Button colors and Black Friday
A former coworker asked whether to take an in-house job, and the most useful thing I learned from mine is to ask who gets the interesting work.
They deleted the line
I asked a developer on an outside team why a line was there, meaning it literally, and they deleted it, which is roughly when I understood that the approve button had been doing the talking.
Logic in templates
For a year I built tickets like this one around placeholder text and handed the rest to a back-end developer, until the rest turned out to be a few lines in a file I'd been editing all along.
It wasn't just my machine
Getting the local environment running on my Windows machine took most of my first week and hours of the lead developer's time, and I spent all of it assuming the problem was me.