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Debugging Misadventures: Down the Rabbit Hole

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How far would you go to catch a sneaky bug?

Debugging Misadventures: Down the Rabbit Hole For the past few years for Christmas, I’ve asked people in my family for stories from their lives rather than a physical gift. Last year, my sister Emma, who works as a dentist, asked me for the same. This is the story I sent my sister, along with some illustrations by my very multitalented coworker Jessica Liu . A lot of my day-to-day work as a software engineer involves debugging. We expect the system to do X but it does Y instead. Why? One of my coworkers, Karl , really enjoys this process. He imagines the bug as a sneaky adversary, running arou

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