#java

The premise was easy. An API call was supposed to return orders for one branch — and it kept handing back orders it had no business showing. I had the code. The code looked fine.

The message said my AI limit was reached — come back at 3 AM. So at 3 AM, phone in hand, I pressed continue. Twice. And then I thought about skeletons.

All I wanted was to get one project running on my laptop. Seven weeks later I'd written a tool whose only job was to find the trapdoors, and I was running the same code in five copies at once just to keep the fights straight.