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What is this magical job where two typos land you a day off, no questions asked?
A typo in software development or other shell based work could completely ass womp a system in ways that could lose a company lots of money.
Oopsies on prod systems, even with an outage window, can really fuck shit up. Seemingly small mistakes can quickly snowball into systemwide outages.
It's wild to me how some places I've worked are like locked down, all the infrastructure is in terraform or whatever and can be deployed immediately... and other places are like "ssh into prod with the credentials from confluence, edit the config in vim, and paste the new code into a new file"
One of those is Amazon prior to chatgpt, the other is Amazon a few weeks back.