Did Not Make The Cut #5

One Tough Bug
Description

This one might hit a little too close to home.

Every team has that developer.
The one who casually suggests, "we should probably refactor this," like they're recommending coffee instead of detonating half the codebase.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are out here trying to survive with "just a small fix."
Patch it. Nudge it. Add one more if and pray.

This comic is about one of those days when three developers team up to squash a “simple” bug…
three hours later, nothing works, everyone is confused, and morale is somewhere in staging.

So you do what you swore you wouldn't do… you call in Lee.

Five minutes later there's a pull request.
Forty files changed. Half the app reorganized. Bug: gone.

The hardest part isn't that Lee fixed it.
It's that deep down… you know they were right.

One Tough Bug

Tough Bug 1
Tough Bug 2
Tough Bug 3
Developer Channel
Quinn
Quinn 10:02 AM

Hey, seeing an issue in production. Created ticket 1444, can somebody take a look?

Glenn
Glenn 10:03 AM

Looking now.

Glenn
Glenn 10:17 AM

Reproduced locally 👍

Glenn
Glenn 10:42 AM

This is a tough one.
Hey @Rob and @Pete can we pair up on this?

Rob
Rob 2:05 PM

@Lee we can't seem to find a solution.
Are you available?

Lee
Lee 2:09 PM

Looking.

Lee
Lee 2:14 PM

Yeah this needs a refactor.

Glenn
Glenn 2:15 PM

…for the bug?

Lee
Lee 2:16 PM

For everything.

Lee
Lee 2:22 PM

PR Up.

Glenn
Glenn 2:23 PM

Already??

Pete
Pete 2:24 PM

250+ changes .. in 5 minutes .. new record .. lol

Glenn
Glenn 2:25 PM

WHAT DID YOU DO?!

Lee
Lee 2:26 PM

Fixed the bug.

Quinn
Quinn 2:28 PM

Confirmed fixed in staging.

Glenn
Glenn 2:30 PM

I'm going to take a walk.

Lesson Learned

Sometimes the bug isn't the bug.
It's everything around it.

And sometimes … the “genius” isn't over engineering.
They just got tired of fighting the same problem you're still trying to patch.

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