omg I almost made a code change in a service (making it so that code that mainly ran every hour after 5pm thursday and friday after 5pm, run every 5 min so we could recreate settlements whenever for whatever week since the beginning....
and then I almost commented out code in something else thinking "this will let it create settlements for all users! no issues!" then it hit me... it would create settlements.... for everyone.... every 5 minutes.... forever.... every day... non-stop...
so glad I realized that before pushing changes out.