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by Dylan16807 3129 days ago
Every time a prototype has been pushed into production. Simple code, but not tested or polished or designed for performance. This happens constantly.

The drive encryption password hint bug looked like a symptom of something like that. The utility was rewritten in a rush, and it's probably not a whole lot of lines of code. But it didn't have even basic testing.