Why I'm in the Codebase

Last week I shipped my first feature. It&rsquo;s a small one. For about five years, Great Question logged everyone out after two hours, no matter what. A hard-coded number an engineer dropped into a pentest fix back in 2021 that nobody ever went back and questioned. Security teams had asked for a tight limit, so we gave everyone the tight limit, and then everyone got logged out mid-session and…