Nightmare-Driven Development

One of our engineers made a PR at 3AM last night, with the description "Had a dream where delete action was miss-clicked instead of csvexport. So removing the option from action list. Prefer this dream to never come true" Do not underestimate nightmare-driven development

A social media post describes an engineer creating a pull request at 3 AM after dreaming that the delete action was accidentally clicked instead of csvexport. The joke is that a frightening dream inspires a practical software safety change, turning anxiety into nightmare-driven development. It is shared as a reaction to late-night coding, paranoid engineering, or unexpectedly useful fear. EN: A social media post describes an engineer creating a pull request at 3 AM after dreaming that the delete action was accidentally clicked instead of csvexport. The joke is that a frightening dream inspires a practical software safety change, turning anxiety into nightmare-driven development. It is shared as a reaction to late-night coding, paranoid engineering, or unexpectedly useful fear.

• @gentoomemes / 19947 2026-01-21