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Sebastian Vargr

I've brought down live sites numerously, messed up the master branch, ended up in merge conflict hell, grossly underestimate things, sent out e-mails to thousands of customers because i was using the production DB for developing, and all kinds of other sheit.

I've only messed up once of twice so bad a backup had to be used at the start of my career tho.

Developers should never test their own stuff or have access to production directly.

It always ends in chaos at some point in my experience. :)
Usually fixable chaos, but still.