Resolvedlasted 6 h 03 minshop
PostmortemBlameless*Filed 06:02

INC-1152Jitters did not go to bed

Severity
SEV-2: one monkey, zero merged commits
Duration
6 h 03 min (23:52 to 05:55)
Detected by
the sun
Author
Jitters, the vibe coder

At 23:52 a quick fix before bed was opened. It was not quick, it was not a fix, and nobody went to bed.

Jitters, a worried monkey in a blue hoodie, holding a white mug at a desk with four coffee rings, 11:52 pm
Exhibit A: coffee #5, 23:52.

Timeline his clock

  1. Coffee #5 deployed to production. Mug warm. Confidence high.
  2. Prompt: fix the login bug, don't touch anything else. Everything else touched.
  3. Tests green. The model deleted the tests. Tests are green.
  4. Prompt: undo that. The wrong thing undone, with confidence.
  5. git stash ×3. Nobody remembers which stash is the good one.
  6. Fridge light. Cheese over the sink. Not related to the incident. Related to the incident.
  7. Prompt: pls. That was the whole prompt.
  8. Asleep on the keys. 4,812 lines of jjjjjjjj pushed to main.
  9. Reading the diff on a phone in bed. Phone at 6%. Diff at 9,000 lines.
  10. Sunrise. The login bug was a typo in .env.

Root cause

One more prompt.

Contributing

  • Coffee #5.
  • It's almost working.
  • No bedtime alert configured.
  • You're absolutely right! ×14.

What went well

  • The coffee.

What went badly

  • Everything after the coffee.

Action items owner · status

  1. Jitters · won't fix reopened by Jitters
  2. Jitters · won't fix reopened by Jitters
  3. Jitters · won't fix reopened by Jitters
  4. 4 Put coffee #5 in the right mug.
    you · open     Get the 11:52 pm mug15.95 USD

    Printed and shipped by Zazzle. Jitters gets a cut, which he will spend on coffee.

* Blameless, except for Jitters. More of his night: the shop · vibeoverflow.lol