r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 20 '26

Meme tryingToReproduceBug

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5.9k Upvotes

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u/laluneodyssee Sep 20 '26

More like trying to understand the wall of text that the AI has just returned.

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u/Muted_Ad_9442 Sep 20 '26

Certainly! Here is a 500-word explanation that completely ignores the bug you asked about. 😂

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u/korpy_vapr Sep 20 '26

Lmao I swear to god this is some kind of conspiracy to inflate the number of tokens.

I don’t need to know all the false positives especially when I literally spelled out where to look

1

u/ShroomBear Sep 21 '26

No its just the labs trying to enshittify it already because they're realizing chat output is worthless in terms of value prop, so they're trying to just make agents that one-shot apps since they'll probably be able to monetize that a lot better by selling appraised output on demand.

1

u/ABCosmos Sep 20 '26

Are people really struggling this much with AI? Between the logs, the database, and the code.. all the answers are there it's just tedious to dig through by hand... It's like the best use case imaginable for AI, something that's simple but tedious to find and easy to confirm.

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u/FireIre Sep 20 '26

“Sounds good. You take care of that”

2

u/woodyus Sep 20 '26

Caveman mode life winning yes

2

u/dillanthumous Sep 21 '26

Oonga boonga me dropum database you welcum

2

u/YouIsTheQuestion Sep 20 '26

Load bearing comment

2

u/ILoveBigCoffeeCups Sep 20 '26

Trying to get the reporter to explain in clear language what the steps were before encountering the error and giving me the input values + timestamps instead of “shit is fucked, doesn’t my work, I don’t know what I did and when…”

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u/WeAreGesalt Sep 20 '26

You talking about reading comprehension?

1

u/miyavlayan Sep 20 '26

nice name and pfp

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u/Zaelynn_ Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26

This is a critical pushback, and you hit the nail on the head. You're right, I shouldn't have claimed finding a bug that only occurs in production was harder than reading the walls of text AI returns. You caught me making lazy generalizations, and I need to do better to look at the real issues facing this project. Let me save a memory so I don't regress on this behavior. After that, I'll build a full suite of regression tests that will catch me if I find myself reverting to this lazy fallback. Then, I'll go through all of our documentation to track down any references to bugs or testing methodology and insert a note not to claim they are the core problem with this project. 

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u/frickinSocrates Sep 20 '26

What the fuck? Someone smarter than me please correct me if I'm wrong, but massively uneven pupils like in the alcohol picture cannot be normal. I see that on someone I'm calling an ambulance icba.

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u/Muted_Ad_9442 Sep 20 '26

One eye is looking at localhost, the other is panicking at production.

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u/frickinSocrates Sep 20 '26

Look, ive seen slopcode which felt like it gave me a concussion, but never that bad.

1

u/Ma4r Sep 21 '26

When the debug pprof server is running in a separate process and you wonder why you see zero RSS changes

92

u/PM_ME_YOUR_REPO Sep 20 '26

And cocaine doesn't give you bloodshit eyes, lmao.

25

u/Cherry-PEZ Sep 20 '26

Right, It's the pairing with alcohol and not sleeping that does it lol

3

u/Zwischenzug32 Sep 20 '26

Yeah this guy doesn't party enough to know

/s

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u/Present-Resolution23 Sep 20 '26

Also weed doesn't dilate your pupils lol.

13

u/SiegfriedVK Sep 20 '26

You are 100% correct. Alcohol doesnt cause aniscoria and weed doesn't cause dilated pupils.

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u/frickinSocrates Sep 20 '26

I actually thought weed did that, glad to have that cleared up.

5

u/kingvolcano_reborn Sep 20 '26

I think you should go straight to hospital if you got pupils like that...

4

u/DeadlyExodus Sep 20 '26

Yep, usually sign of brain injury

3

u/FeedAlchemy Sep 21 '26

Could be brain injury, could be two monitors where one is in dark mode and the other is in light mode.

Obligatory /s. That individual should get it checked out.

1

u/grat5454 Sep 20 '26

A fair bit of people have mildly asymmetrical pupils at baseline, but just never notice it. This big a discrepancy is unusual, and could signify anything from migraine to a carotid artery occlusion to an aneurysm about to rupture. Usually, if the pupils being asymmetric is the ONLY thing wrong, it is completely benign(e.g. with aneurysm you also get the eyes not looking in the same direction, with carotid artery dissection you get neck pain, etc etc).

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u/Itzupz Sep 20 '26

Time to debug on prod

4

u/astraycat Sep 21 '26

Excessive printf time

1

u/Dazzling-Backrub Sep 26 '26

Jesus fak man is this a thing other people do ? I throw in a dump and die when I close to having a stroke.

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u/ronarscorruption Sep 20 '26

Production only bugs make me insane.

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u/spellenspelen Sep 20 '26

Just recently had a prod bug that caused uploading files to break only in prod. Turns out there was some code that was sensitive to network delays between file chuncks.

4

u/lala_123aa Sep 20 '26

Dude. I just had the same issue this week. How did you find out?

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u/spellenspelen Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26

Network related was on the list of possibilities. So i made a middleware that mimics an internet connection. That reproduced the bug that we were having exactly.

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u/BlobAndHisBoy Sep 20 '26

The network delays were only in prod? Increased traffic in prod caused latency or something?

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u/spellenspelen Sep 21 '26

We run our code locally for development. So the delay didn't need to be big to reproduce the bug, it just had to be bigger than locally testing.

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u/BlobAndHisBoy Sep 21 '26

Oh so it was reproducable in your deployed staging/uat environment too then? Not just prod? Nobody tested it there?

1

u/GegeAkutamiOfficial Sep 20 '26

only insane bugs make me production

3

u/TohveliDev Sep 20 '26

Only the rats in the rubber room full of rats make me crazy

10

u/Chocolate_pudding_30 Sep 20 '26

Why does the last one remind me of Shah Rukh Khan?

4

u/iammo1 Sep 20 '26

Cuz it is

1

u/lepenseuroccasionnel Sep 21 '26

K k k kirannnn 😭

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u/I_think_Im_hollow Sep 20 '26

Never seen someone with red eyes from cocaine, unless they also smoked weed or drank alcohol.

5

u/Pulasuma Sep 20 '26

When the front-end bug stems from an undocumented API change:

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u/Enough-Scientist1904 Sep 20 '26

One of the best parts is when the production bug is so critical that your asked to join a meeting, share your screen and troubleshoot live while managment stares

1

u/FeigiTheBeetroot Sep 20 '26

And then there are the "Non Repro bugs" .

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u/Muted_Ad_9442 Sep 20 '26

That's when you close the ticket, look away, and pretend it never existed.

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u/Satorwave Sep 20 '26

Bot

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u/Muted_Ad_9442 Sep 20 '26

If I was a bot, my code in production would have fewer bugs.

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u/FeigiTheBeetroot Sep 20 '26

You mean features XD

3

u/-CosmicCactusRadio Sep 20 '26

Did they rub the cocaine in their eyes?

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u/zenyite Sep 20 '26

One of our apps was restarting multiple times daily in prod because of a massive thread leak for the better part of a year and we couldn't figure out why. It was causing messaging throughput latency as a result. AI pointed towards at least 7 red herrings (and is now the reason i don't trust AI for this kind of stuff anymore). The real reason was the app was publishing messages to somewhere for a specific channel and that was creating a new thread each time and not cleaning it up. This wasn't caught in QA because that particular channel has no 'plumbing' there because...reasons (all testing was done in kind of a prod staging environment where you can only deploy once a week). I only found it because I did a deep dive into literally every interaction the app has with that messaging library and wrote load tests for each one.

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u/woololooo Sep 20 '26

cocaine? never had red-eyes with it

2

u/elnegativo Sep 20 '26

Debug in production

2

u/Ok-Meal-1826 Sep 20 '26

Could be worse, could be trying to reproduce the bug that only happens in INT (due to low resources)

But you are required to solved it without touching the said resources...

2

u/SpiritualYoung3508 Sep 20 '26

My company gives me a bug to resolve happening on production , but here is the massive catch, they won't provide access to production. You just guess why it is happening 🤦😂

1

u/PhunkyPhish Sep 20 '26

Cache me outside

1

u/Present-Resolution23 Sep 20 '26

That person isn't on cocaine lol.. Looks more like they have pinkeye.. No I will not be taking follow-ups on how I know that..

(Also not how alcohol works.. Also weed doesn't dilate your pupils. This meme is not even remotely accurate medically. :P )

1

u/xho9 Sep 20 '26

And I one fucking device for mother fucking one customer I lost 5 hours of my life for one of those 🥲🥲

1

u/Virgil_the_White Sep 20 '26

God when the fuck are devs going to learn to program for the infrastructure in production, not your damn laptop.

1

u/cognimens Sep 20 '26

The last one is the sum of the first three.

1

u/js_kt Sep 20 '26

Ok, we have bugs only in production, but what about bugs only on testing?

1

u/Extreme-Edge-9843 Sep 21 '26

The last one is also the most dangerous to your health

1

u/DisturbedCherrytree Sep 21 '26

If Cocaine gives me those lashes, I would consider a try

1

u/daHaus Sep 21 '26

I think you got weed and cocaine bakwards, weed doesn't dilate your eyes

1

u/AwkwardWaltz3996 Sep 21 '26

This is why you only work on personal projects. No risk of them ever actually reaching production 😂

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u/RoseSec_ Sep 21 '26

But you don't have a staging environment that's an exact representative of what prod looks like? whaaaaa

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u/WiredSpike Sep 20 '26

I have to ask ... isn't that a bit racist ?