Hasnain says:

“That was another rathole, and the answer was also a thing to behold: I couldn't see it in the checked-in source code because it had been fixed. Some other engineer on a completely unrelated project had tripped over it, figured it out, and sent a fix to the team which owned that program. They had committed it, so the source code looked fine.

[ Another side note: this person who fixed a bug in some code that wasn't their actual "job" was the kind of excellent behavior that used to be lionized there - "nothing at FB is someone else's problem". That credo died a long time ago. ]”

Posted on 2025-02-24T07:26:10+0000