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1. Zach Leatherman 1 min later

   anyway, I’m glad we could pretend that there was a system environment variable to denote when a Deploy Hook triggered a build, if just for a little while.

   1. dan sinker 2 min later

      love that a normal part of dev now is "ensure that the thing you're being told exists actually exists"

      1. Zach Leatherman 4 min later

         Computer: Answer

         Me: Are you sure Answer?

         Computer: You are right, Answer was not correct

         this is a good and proper system

         1. dan sinker 5 min later

            love it, so glad we've done this to ourselves.

   2. Zach Leatherman 3 min later

      here’s the ACTUAL face I am making read this: 🥴

      1. luke karrys 22 min later

         the real environment variables were the ones we imagined on the way

   3. Private reply 25 min later
      1. Zach Leatherman 45 min later

         appreciate the idea but no pull requests in play here, unfortunately

2. Zach Leatherman 10 days later

   love 2 consult my “I didn’t test this but it should work” junior developer chatbot

   1. Torsten Curdt 10 days later

      The LLMs do sometimes really show how it SHOULD be - but isn't ...which makes it even more frustrating to use them.

      1. Zach Leatherman 10 days later

         I haven’t encountered this yet but I’ll take your word for it!