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What's the weirdest bug in a program you found in a project you didn't write? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by vrek@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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I thought of this after a recent bug I found. I use Vivaldi browser and recently it updated. After the update my mouse cursor was not visible when within the browser window. Other programs worked fine. I tried visual studio and steam and epic game store all had my mouse, Vivaldi didn't.

I closed all instances of Vivaldi via task nanager(was unable to click the x) and restarted it. That fixed the bug and I haven't been able to replicate so I don't have anything to submit for a bug report. Just a really strange thing.

What have been your weirdest bugs?

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

It’s not a bug per se, and we’re gonna see a lot of this moving forward.

Did a code review, hefty code review, and as I got to the end of it where “the magic happened” I discovered that the logic was actually a case statement for every permutation.

Because they’d asked the AI to write logic to go through each type, the AI wrote a case statement for EACH TYPE.

… it was so fucking fast though. So wrong but so so fast compared to the actual running code.

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