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The hardest debugging task: reliably reproducing the issue

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/10

This happens so often:  [Wayback/Archive] Jen Gentleman 🌺 on Twitter: “@XenoPanther This happens to me way too often”

Or on public repositories: [Wayback/Archive] Xeno 🐈‍⬛ on Twitter: “… Seriously? I was able to repro an issue but as soon as I began filing feedback. Fixed”

A reliable CI/CD environment helps on the former: that way you can produce a breaking build both locally and on the CI/CD in one go.

Step 1: finally repro the bug Step 2: Tell your teammate Step 3: The repro goes away Wait, what? Gru, who has been presenting the steps on a whiteboard, looks back at that one, wondering if there's a flaw in the plan

–jeroen

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