| ▲ | strbean 5 days ago | |
It's nearly guaranteed, even if it is just because customers had to work around the bug in such a way that their flow now breaks when the bug is gone. Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1172/ | ||
| ▲ | thaumasiotes 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
That comic doesn't show someone working around a bug in such a way that their flow breaks when the bug is gone. It shows them incorporating a bug into their workflow for purposes of causing the bug to occur. It isn't actually possible for fixing a bug to break a workaround. The point of a workaround is that you're not doing the thing that's broken; when that thing is fixed, your flow won't be affected, because you weren't doing it anyway. | ||
| ▲ | giaour 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Also known as Hyrum's Law (https://www.hyrumslaw.com/), but more people know the XKCD at this point :) | ||