That's how to make a career. If you never make any mistakes, you're invisible. Don't do it too often though, or you'll eventually get promoted to management.
9 0 ReplyUnfortunately, most people who break things while they make changes will swear up and down that their change didn't break anything.
39 1 ReplyI find it worse when they swear that they didn't do anything at all. The changes just happened spontaneously.
24 0 ReplyThose people are almost as bad as the junior devs that are very confidently incorrect.
9 0 ReplyEven worse? Senior devs that are confidently incorrect but are trusted completely because they created an "amazing" VBA macro for Excel 97 once.
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Note that this also applies to politicians.
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If it didn't happen, management may ask what is your value.
9 0 ReplyOof that's me 💀
15 0 ReplyIt really depends on the situation. There are times, where it's better to let it play out exactly like this.
99% of the time though, it's best practice for me to announce my error, before anyone affected knows what hit them.
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