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The Y2K Lesson
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Design shortcuts inside code can surface as society-scale problems decades later — the Y2K problem grew from storing years as two digits while memory was expensive.
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A saving of two characters per date rippled into a worldwide repair effort.
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Consequences outlive the constraints that excused the shortcut.