🐞 Types of Bugs in Every Dev’s Life
Because if you haven’t cried over these... are you even a dev?
1. The Ghost Bug 👻
It was there. You saw it. Your teammate saw it.
Now? It’s gone.
No commits. No changes. Just... disappeared.
“It must’ve fixed itself...”
— Famous last words
2. The Heisenbug 🧠💥
Only exists when you're not debugging.
As soon as you add a print statement: poof, it’s gone.
“I swear it crashes every time—wait, it’s working now??”
3. The “It Works on My Machine” Bug 🖥️💔
Flawless on your laptop.
Explodes on prod like a Michael Bay film.
“You using Node 18.3.1.1.2-beta3 too?”
4. The Time Traveler Bug ⏳
Happens only at midnight. Or on Feb 29th.
Wrecks your app once a year, then vanishes.
“Why is this showing 1970 again???”
5. The One-Line Apocalypse 💀
Just one line… one innocent-looking line…
Takes 3 days to find. 6 hours to fix. 12 years off your lifespan.
=instead of==.
Game over.
6. The “Feature Not a Bug” Bug 🤡
Product says it’s a feature.
You know it’s a bug.
Users just suffer.
“Yeah it refreshes the page every time you press space. That’s intentional.”
7. The Boomerang Bug 🪃
You fix it. You ship it. You celebrate.
Two sprints later? It’s back. Stronger. Angrier.
“Did someone revert the fix or... is this a sequel?”
👀 Bonus:
If you’ve never seen these bugs…
Check your code.
You are the bug. 🐛
💬 What bug haunted you the most?
Drop it in the comments — or tag a dev who needs a laugh 👇