r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ArjunReddyDeshmukh • 3h ago

Meme unplannedDivergence

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u/Few_Kitchen_4825 3h ago

The product

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u/CaffeinatedTech 2h ago

The tests pass against the stubbed functions though.

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 2h ago

Jokes on you, I set my own acceptance criteria

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u/ICBanMI 2h ago

*Kitt jumps over the road, hits a tree, and blows up.*

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u/Pixel_Null 1h ago

PM: "The ticket said it needs to drive." Me: "Nowhere in the requirements did it say it had to stay on the ground."

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u/rahvan 1h ago

Y’all are getting acceptance criteria? I’m lucky if I get an actual ticket with more than 3 words in the title summary

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u/portra315 33m ago

Yeah acceptance criteria left the building in 2020 for me

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u/redakpanoptikk 1h ago

When I tell you I'm going to spend 40 hours failing to automate a task, this is what the automation looks like in my head before I just go back to doing the task by hand.

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u/TheMythicSorcerer 3h ago

Am I the only one who doesn't get the joke?

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u/LowB0b 3h ago

I'm interpreting it as OP adding a thousand bells and whistles to his program except the one thing the ticket was actually asking for.

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u/Pcat0 1h ago

Why change the car then? Or is that not part of the joke?

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u/TheMythicSorcerer 2h ago

That seems to make sense

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u/zebezt 2h ago

This car is not actually allowed on the road

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u/Duck_Devs 2h ago

Also not real. Model Ys can’t do this.

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u/insolent_kiwi 59m ago

Fuel economy was a requirement?

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u/Ascomae 40m ago

No problem, won't be shipped anyways.

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u/Percolator2020 5m ago

Carrying a passenger: ❌
Drive in anything, but a straight line: ❌
Fly: ❌
Ironing a thousand shirts at once: ✅

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u/precinct209 1h ago

When I accidentally forget to mention in the spec that the product must not be a flying nazi wagon