[k__]

"When the reporter doesn't have a repro for the bug, which is quite common when it comes to distributed systems, the bug will be written off as non-existent"

This.

If this is your modus operandi, then please think twice.

For me, as the person with the problem, this just sounds like "I don't want to be bothered with this right now".

Most maintainers don't see this as a possibility to improve their project, but as trouble for their brilliant idea. Grow up!

[hinkley]

I think you have to swim upstream in this, which is to say resist the urge to write systems with complex emergent behavior in the first place. They’re thrilling to write, but even you will get tired of your bullshit at some point and lose interest (often before you figure out why you don’t like working on the code).

I am watching a coworker begin to discover this right now. He’s one of the last standing of a cohort of overconfident loudmouths. It’s been... interesting. No self-awareness so far yet though.