Early in my career at a FAANG, I set out to fix a minor bug in how some labels were displayed in non-Latin scripts and ended up rewriting a small part of the font handling system. Nothing fancy, basically just a hash table lookup.
Ten years later my code lives on in a product used by billions of people, meaning it has been executed trillions of times since, far more than the total sum of all the other code I have written in my career.
Ten years later my code lives on in a product used by billions of people, meaning it has been executed trillions of times since, far more than the total sum of all the other code I have written in my career.