Bug Blindness
Article URL: https://danluu.com/bug-blind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494520 Points: 206 # Comments: 99
I used to wonder why I see so many more bugs than most people. Over time, I realized that it's mostly because people notice the same bugs as me, but most others don't. I've noticed this with friends and acquaintances, who start noticing bugs after I point them out. Sometimes, directors or VPs ask me to evaluate something, and I find mild to moderate issues, but sometimes severe ones where the software barely works.
I find it mysterious how such flawed products can get launched, and I sometimes wonder if I'm triggering bugs most users wouldn't encounter. However, I now believe that if a product seems severely flawed when I use it, it probably is. I've had several examples where search engines like Google, Bing, and Kagi failed to return useful results, with Kagi being the exception.
Even though some people insisted Kagi's results were good, I found them full of spam except for specific cases. I also mentioned Blackboard, a widely disliked course management software in education, with 93% of survey respondents hating it.
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