Bug Fixing: A Vicious Cycle of Regression

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This meme uses the four-panel 'Gru's Plan' format from the movie Despicable Me. In each panel, the character Gru stands next to a presentation board. In the first panel, Gru is enthusiastic, and the board reads 'WE FIND THE BUG'. In the second, he points to his head with a clever expression, and the board says 'WE FIX THE BUG'. The third panel shows Gru looking devious, but the plan takes a turn with the text 'NOW WE HAVE TWO BUGS'. In the final panel, Gru looks back at the board with a horrified and confused expression, as the text has changed to 'NOW WE HAVE THREE BUGS'. A watermark for 'imgflip.com' is in the bottom-left corner. This meme perfectly encapsulates the frustrating experience in software development where an attempt to fix a single bug inadvertently creates multiple new ones. This phenomenon, known as regression, is a common nightmare for developers, especially when working in complex, highly-coupled, or poorly tested legacy codebases. It humorously depicts the 'one step forward, two steps back' feeling of a debugging session gone wrong

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Software engineering abides by the law of conservation of bugs: bugs are never created or destroyed, only transformed into new, more interesting bugs

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Software engineering abides by the law of conservation of bugs: bugs are never created or destroyed, only transformed into new, more interesting bugs
Anonymous

Squashed the bug; its two eventual-consistency replicas and the read-repair copy immediately elected a new primary
Anonymous

The only thing more reliable than our CI/CD pipeline is the mathematical certainty that every hotfix will spawn exactly n+1 new bugs, where n is the number of stakeholders watching the deployment
Anonymous

Ah yes, the Hydra Pattern - where fixing one bug spawns two more, each more elusive than the last. It's the universe's way of reminding us that our 'quick fix' in a tightly-coupled legacy codebase without adequate test coverage is really just a down payment on tomorrow's production incident. Senior engineers know this dance well: you confidently patch the null pointer, only to discover you've now introduced a race condition and broken backward compatibility with a client integration from 2015 that nobody documented
Anonymous

Fixing that one obvious bug in the monolith? Congrats, you've just unmasked the two regressions it was gatekeeping
Anonymous

That one-line hotfix removed a compensating error and broke an undocumented contract - congrats, you’ve shipped bug-as-API and its two replicas
Anonymous

We fixed the bug by adding retries to a non-idempotent write behind an eventually consistent cache - congrats, you’ve horizontally scaled it into distributed bugs
@viktorrozenko 5y

Dynamic typing in a nutshell
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  C programmers be like: auto
  
  @sylfn 5y
  
  auto in C and old C++ (pre-11) was used to make compiler place variable automatically -- on stack or in registers (there were keyword register or such) in new C++ (from C++11) auto is used when you want compiler to determine type of variable. auto a = vector<int>(); // vector<int> a; auto b; // error: what type? auto c = 10; // int c; auto d = 10.; // double d; auto e = 5.f; // float e; auto q = a.size(); // size_t q;
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  don't care, auto go brrr
  
  Deleted Account 5y
  
  well, that means c programmers can't go brrrr
@karim_mahyari 5y

Well, good thing in c you won't need to use a variable with type: map<pair<int, int>, vector<int> >
1. @affirvega 5y
  
  Well what do you use in c instead?
  
  @p4vook 5y
  
  shit ton of GNU macros
@karim_mahyari 5y

I use c++ But, jokes aside, I've only used C for posix libraries, and arrays have been enough, other big names can be typedef'd out
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

😂😂😂😂😂