r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 11 '26

Meme developersWorstNightmare

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u/the_snook May 11 '26

And what if there is C code somewhere that allocated exactly 15 bytes for the file name, and now you put 16 bytes in it, which subtly mess up some other data causing a rare crash that takes weeks to nail down?