Knowing a word is not understanding it: the bug that made our app say safe
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Here is a bug that shipped, that every test passed, that no error tracker would ever catch, and that told a lactose-intolerant user a bottle of kefir was fine. It is my favourite kind of bug, because nothing was broken. Two correct systems grew at different speeds, and the gap between them turned i…
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- 2026-09-14 09:09 · DEV Community — AI
Knowing a word is not understanding it: the bug that made our app say safe