And then a year later I’m the only one who can remember that the reason we are in the middle of a grotesque rewrite is that we got a promise from management that we could treat all X as Y and they didn’t keep their word because that was last year and this is now.

Why can’t you idiots figure out how to code?

I have told a few people that when we substituted their judgment for mine this became their problem. I really think I should have said it more often.