The Great Substep Mishap (BUG-789)

A tale of woe and suboptimal design choices

It started innocently enough. A seemingly innocuous update to the What Went Wrong subpage. But little did we know, it would unravel a chain of catastrophic events that would lead to the downfall of our beloved substep.

Causes

  1. Unqualified developer attempting to "improve" existing code
  2. Unwise reliance on untested assumptions
  3. Lack of proper testing (read: no testing)

Effects

  1. Users reporting "weird" bugs
  2. System crashes with alarming frequency
  3. Unexplained increases in Mysterious Glitch Rate