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Just spent 3 full days fixing a broken Google Ads script that should have taken an hour

A client needed a simple script to pause ads when their stock ran out. I thought it would be quick, but the API calls kept failing for no clear reason. I must have checked the code 20 times before I found one tiny typo in a product ID list. Has anyone else had a script fight them this hard over something so small?
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ben486
ben4862mo agoMost Upvoted
Bro, that's just how coding goes sometimes.
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nguyen.dylan
nguyen.dylan1mo agoMost Upvoted
Honestly, you really think we should just accept that? Tbh it feels like a bad excuse for sloppy work. If we keep saying "that's just how it is" nothing ever gets better. We should be trying to fix the process so these mistakes happen less.
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mia_ward60
mia_ward602mo ago
What was the typo, like a missing letter or wrong number?
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