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Better or worse than a bug that appears once every few months in Prod, but only when it's raining at the customer's location, and never on Sundays?

(This is an actual issue I've encountered. It had to do with code scraping weather data for a horse racetrack, specifically if the page was updated while the scraper ran. It was buried in a PHP monolith with no tests. The track didn't run races on Sunday.)



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