A clown car is comically small for its use (the joke is that it arrives and clowns keep getting out, seemingly more than could have been inside). I’m sorry, I didn’t mean you as a poster, but someone else who is hiring professionals while under-specifying hardware they provide you. Storing source code is not a problem you should have reason to worry about.
The problem with “fix it now” is that I didn’t know for sure that our behavior was wrong, I just knew that a consumer of our microservice had begun alerting on errors. I had to find out whether this was a mistake (which maybe I could safely fix) or important and intended (and any change must be negotiated with other consumers). It comes with having an old, complex system with a lot of dependencies and without exhaustive documentation.
I can't count how many times this has happened to me. Trace an issue down to some piece of code that makes it look very intentional, then have to go spelunking through whatever history I can find to figure out what the actual correct specified behavior is. Bonus fun when you have to start reaching out to clients to find out if anyone is relying on it acting that way.
The problem with “fix it now” is that I didn’t know for sure that our behavior was wrong, I just knew that a consumer of our microservice had begun alerting on errors. I had to find out whether this was a mistake (which maybe I could safely fix) or important and intended (and any change must be negotiated with other consumers). It comes with having an old, complex system with a lot of dependencies and without exhaustive documentation.