Daily Prompt: 2024-05-09

Describe a time you figured out the cause of a mysterious bug.

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Kevin McDonald @[email protected]

The most interesting bug that I found and fixed had such a large impact that major contracts had to be re-negotiated because we would suddenly be properly accounting for usage. That was the first time that I had to wait a couple months before I could release a fix to a fairly simple bug.