My "favorite" is when I see people go all in, writing thousands of lines of Jenk...

ozim · 2025-01-20T22:56:42 1737413802

I think that is pitfall of software devs.

For me it was an epiphany as software dev - not to write reusable extensible scripts - I am so much more productive after that.

baby_souffle · 2025-01-21T02:35:57 1737426957

> "But then we can reuse the same pipeline for all our projects!"

oh god just reading that gave me PTSD flash backs.

At $priorGig there was the "omni-chart". It was a helm chart that was so complex it needed to be wrapped in terraform and used composable terraform modules w/ user var overrides as needed.

Debugging anything about it meant clearing your calendar for the day and probably the following day, too.

lowercased · 2025-01-20T21:57:27 1737410247

I can rarely reuse the same pipeline for the same project 6 months down the road, much less reuse for anything else.

The few bits that end up getting reused are the externalized bash scripts.