fat-finger

jargon

ops cultureIT support

To cause an outage with a typo - the wrong command, the wrong device, or one digit off in a config line.

Half the war stories in networking start with a fat-fingered prefix, VLAN, or a reload typed into the wrong window. Change windows, peer review, and commit-confirm exist not because engineers are careless, but because everyone's fingers slip eventually.

Also known as: fat-fingered, fat fingering

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