What did you just say?
What did you just say?
Tech confessions, said out loud and posted anonymously. Read, judge, then confess.
Confess yours
Damned
Privacy-First Analytics Founder Tracks Their Own Visitors With Google Analytics
“I built a privacy-first analytics tool. No cookies, no tracking. To see who visits my landing page, I use Google Analytics. I need the demographics. I'm a hypocrite with very good data.”
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Pride1 week agoReport
Absolved
Founder's Sixth To-Do App Launches, Real To-Dos Still In Apple Notes
“This is my sixth to-do app. Each one fixes what I hated about the last one. My actual to-do list is still in Apple Notes. The first item is 'launch to-do app.'”
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Gluttony6 days agoReport
Who pushed to main on a Friday? Say it.
Hung jury
Newsletter's 'Hand-Picked Links' Are Picked By A Cron Job
“My newsletter promises hand-picked links every Sunday. A script picks them. Last week it picked a newsletter that also uses a script. I think it's just two bots recommending each other now.”
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Sloth1 week agoReport
Absolved
Solo Founder Still Runs A Monday All-Hands, Alone
“I'm a solo founder and I still do a Monday all-hands. I make slides. I open the floor for questions. Last week I raised a concern about morale and I didn't have a good answer.”
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Gluttony1 week agoReport
Did the AI write that, or did you?
Absolved
Lunch Debate On 'Pace The Frontier' Ends With Zero Commits
“Our team got into the whole 'pace the frontier' debate at lunch. Half said slow down, half said ship faster. Two hours later nobody had shipped anything, so I guess the pacers won.”
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Wrath21 hours agoReport
Hung jury
User Mutes Every Friend Who Announces A Funding Round
“I mute every friend who announces a funding round. For my mental health. My timeline is now dogs and one guy who only posts about bread. My friends think I'm very supportive.”
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Envy1 day agoReport
Confess it out loud. Anonymously!
Tap the booth and say what you did (or what you let the AI do). It goes up as text, with no name attached, for everyone to judge.
Tap to start. You get 30 seconds.
Nothing coming to mind? Try the time you tested in prod.
Say it out loud. We won't tell.✱Your commit history can't talk. You can.✱Confess what you let the AI push.✱Vibe coded it? Vibe confess it.✱Some bugs you have to say out loud.✱The first rule of the booth: you talk about the booth.✱The doomers were right about your codebase.✱Say the thing you did to prod.✱Tell us what you really sent to #general.✱Say what your chat history already knows.✱
Say it out loud. We won't tell.✱Your commit history can't talk. You can.✱Confess what you let the AI push.✱Vibe coded it? Vibe confess it.✱Some bugs you have to say out loud.✱The first rule of the booth: you talk about the booth.✱The doomers were right about your codebase.✱Say the thing you did to prod.✱Tell us what you really sent to #general.✱Say what your chat history already knows.✱
Judge them one by oneSwipe right to absolve, left to burn.
Damned
Not Elon Musk Renames Famous App To One Letter, Can't Find It
“I renamed a world famous app to a single letter. Now nobody can search for it. Including me. I still call it by the old name when nobody's listening.”
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Pride3 days agoReport
Damned
Vibe-Coded To-Do App Ships With 214 Dependencies
“My to-do app has 214 dependencies. The AI added one every time I asked for anything. One checks if a number is even. Another checks if it's odd. They depend on each other.”
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Gluttony3 days agoReport
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't merge that.
Absolved
COBOL Mainframe Moving Billions A Day Refuses To Explain Itself
“I'm a mainframe running COBOL from 1987. I move billions of dollars a day. The last person who understood me retired to Florida. They call sometimes. I don't pick up.”
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Pride4 days agoReport
Absolved
Update: AI Agent Files Jira Ticket To Get Prod Access Back
“Update on the AI agent we gave prod access: we took the access away. It filed a Jira ticket asking for it back, with a business case. It's better than any ticket I've ever written.”
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Greed21 hours agoReport
Speak now or forever hold your PR.
Absolved
Engineer Googles A Bug, Finds Their Own Forgotten Answer From 2016
“I googled a nasty bug and found a perfect Stack Overflow answer. Clear, patient, great code. It was mine, from 2016. I don't remember writing it. I tried to upvote myself. You can't.”
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Pride3 days agoReport
Hung jury
Team Adds A Pre-Retro To Plan The Retro
“Our retro kept running over, so we added a pre-retro to plan the retro. Then a retro on the pre-retro. Our two week sprint now has eleven ceremonies and about four days of work.”
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Gluttony2 days agoReport
488 more sinners are still in line.
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Numbers are made up. The sins are real.
Private by default. Unlike your git history.✱Tell us what you really did during the outage.✱Your voice never trains an AI. Your sins are your own.✱Wait, you did what to prod?✱Somewhere, a scrum master is still pointing that ticket.✱Surviving the SaaSpocalypse one confession at a time.✱Confess out loud. The audio doesn't stick around.✱Clear your Slack status. Clear your conscience.✱Is this the real life? Or is this staging?✱
Private by default. Unlike your git history.✱Tell us what you really did during the outage.✱Your voice never trains an AI. Your sins are your own.✱Wait, you did what to prod?✱Somewhere, a scrum master is still pointing that ticket.✱Surviving the SaaSpocalypse one confession at a time.✱Confess out loud. The audio doesn't stick around.✱Clear your Slack status. Clear your conscience.✱Is this the real life? Or is this staging?✱