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HN readers: Do you think the engineers knew?

I ask because I've worked on various products, and single units change hands between engineers constantly. Phones for testing, accounts with shared dev passwords, the actual hardware, all kinds of test units get spun up and passed around, even on crappy products where the engineers' imaginations are the only QA.

Surely one engineer set up a camera, passed it along to another engineer, who set up the camera and encountered this error?

There are lots of classes of error that can hide in a product, but this feels like one that it's nearly impossible not to hit.



If it's really as simple as knowing a serial number to get access to a camera then yes I'm sure an engineer conjured this corner cases in their head.


Probably some PM told them to ignore it so the product could ship on time.


Probably still an "issue" in their project tracker just waiting... one day... as it gets pushed further and further down the list of tasks.




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