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by ChrisMarshallNY 431 days ago
Anyone that has maintained a shipping product, can relate to this.

Often, there is disagreement over the definition of “bug.”

There’s the old joke, “That’s not a bug, it’s a feature!”, but I have frequently gotten “bug reports,” stating that the fact that my app doesn’t do something that the user wants, is a “bug.”

They are sometimes correct. The original requirements were bad. Even though the app does exactly what it says on the tin, it is unsuitable for its intended demographic.

I call that a “bug.”