
What follows is a summary of the kind of exchange I have on a daily basis as a software engineer. I’ve obfuscated some details for obvious reasons.
Client: Here’s a document that contains a list of events we’d like you to integrate into the app. We need every event that the document contains.
For illustration purposes, let’s say it’s a document with a list of numbers from 1 to 10.
Me: Thanks. I’ll add those right away.
Some time later…
Me: Hi. I’ve added those events: 1-10 are all in there and verified as working.
Client: Events 11 and 12 are not coming through. Here is the document again. Please ensure that all of the events in the document are added.
Me: The document doesn’t contain events 11 and 12. It’s just 1-10...
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