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Re:A one-line change decreased our build times by 99% by jeromenerf on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:23AM (#24893886)
I would bet on "the new recruit found it, 45 minutes in in the onboarding process".
Re:A one-line change decreased our build times by 99% by conradludgate on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:22AM (#24894245)
My first task at my current job, after familiarising myself with the codebase was to improve the CI pipeline
Re:A one-line change decreased our build times by 99% by Aloha on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:48AM (#24897456)
I think everyone has done this, sometimes it really does take a second set of eyes
Re:A one-line change decreased our build times by 99% by ric2b on Thursday November 05, 2020 @06:25AM (#24997316)
In my experience it only takes someone who is not drowning in a backlog of tasks yet.

That tends to be the beginners during the onboarding weeks.

Re:A one-line change decreased our build times by 99% by koliber on Friday October 30, 2020 @04:54AM (#24940374)
The beauty and power of the beginner's mind.

It can see things that were there all along, but everyone who has been there has developed a blindness to.