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by elzbardico 509 days ago
> Finding bugs in virtually any piece of software isn’t difficult if you have access to the source.

What???? Yeah, trivial bugs maybe.

Even because most "hairy" bugs (and those are the one that count by the end of the day) manifest themselves not in obvious ways, but only under some hard to predict set of pre-conditions and input data. And let's not even get started on threaded/asynchronous code.

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Most bugs are trivial to identify and trivial to fix. At least that’s been my experience from 15 years as a SWE in start ups and FANG alike.

Yes, I’ve worked on bugs that have taken weeks to fully resolve. But those are rare.