Vinegar ate through the rust," now try it on exhaust manifold studs, way worse than battery bolts.

That "crimped wrong back in March" part is what gets me. The pin probably passed a continuity check too, so it looked fine and you moved on. What most guys miss is the pin can still read good on a meter but not carry a signal once it's under load, so you end up trusting a bad test. Next time you find one like that, wiggle the wire while you buzz it out, the loose ones show up real quick.

Domain rents are still stupid high so splitting 400 square feet with two other companies is just math at this point. Give it a year and those same startups will be sharing a single desk at a WeWork that's also somehow still charging Austin prices.