fat-finger
jargonops 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