Automate Yourself

There was an employee at a small company, dealing with 5 year old PHP code and fixing CSS bugs.

One day, he got full of the asshole client who wants a toolbar, the idiots who fucked up everything and need a database rollback, etc.

He decided to write lots of scripts. First, he wrote an AI that analyzed the message in his e-mail inbox, and rolled back the database if needed. After that, he wrote a chat bot that turns down the client whenever they want a toolbar.

He spent most of his day writing scripts. Automatically searching for an error on stackoverflow when the website throws one, sending commands to the coffee machine to brew a cup of coffee, etc.

A couple of months pass, and the guy decided to not go to work anymore. He worked from home, just he could relax more from the annoying things in his life.

Two weeks pass, and one of the guys notice that the server is full. They realize that the employee's home folder takes up 500GBs of space. They see a "logs" folder, that takes up this much space. They decide to delete the folder, because they are just logs.

The life goes on. The client asks for a toolbar: no answer. Idiots ask for the rollback: no answer. The boss decides to call in.

Boss: What are you doing? Why are you not replying to anything.

X: What? But I just replied to everything you sent!

Boss: No you didn't! Don't lie to me!

He logs into the server, to find his scripts missing.

X: Did you delete my scripts?

Boss: What scripts?

X: DID YOU DELETE THE LOGS FOLDER WITHOUT LOOKING INTO IT?

Boss: Of course I did! It took up 500GB of storage, and they are just logs!

The guy is now back to ordinary life, searching stackoverflow for PHP functions, rolling back databases, making toolbars, and other shenanigans of being a developer.

And this is why you don't disguise anything as logs.