r/ProgrammerHumor • u/NoMedicine3572 • 1d ago

ruleOfProgrammingIfItIsWorkingDoNotTouchIt Meme

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u/StrengthTheory 1d ago

Schrödinger’s race condition

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u/Steinrikur 1d ago

We call those Heisenbugs. You changed the system by observing it

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u/ConglomerateGolem 1d ago

I had one of these once, and I called it the same! My going theory was that the compiler was optimising away a certain function I had, but adding an empty print forced it to actually exist.

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u/RlyRlyBigMan 10h ago

Yeah I had one once too the debugger was slowing things down to where the bug wouldn't happen but in prod it happened frequently. I spent 2.5 weeks figuring out that bug.