What people are voting on right now. Votes fade over a few days, so fresh pain can climb fast.
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Flaky end-to-end tests block deploys and nobody owns fixing them
A test fails one run in ten. Everyone hits 're-run' until it's green. Over months the suite gets slower and less trusted, and real failures get re-run away too.…
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Onboarding to a new codebase takes weeks of tribal knowledge
The README is from 2021. Why is this service split in two? Which config is real? The answers are in the heads of three senior engineers who are busy. New hires…
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API keys and env vars are scattered across laptops and Slack DMs
Someone joins, someone asks 'can you send me the .env?', and a production key goes into a DM forever. Rotating anything means asking around who has a copy.