You're a junior software engineer. You just merged a code change that passed all tests, but 10 minutes later a colleague Slacks you that it's causing a bug in a feature you didn't know was connected. Your team lead is in back-to-back meetings for the next two hours. What do you do?

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You're a junior software engineer. You just merged a code change that passed all tests, but 10 minutes later a colleague Slacks you that it's causing a bug in a feature you didn't know was connected. Your team lead is in back-to-back meetings for the next two hours. What do you do?

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