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**💻📰 [War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/hn)**

While working on the Google Docs team, the author encountered a particularly challenging bug. During a weekly bug triage, a new fatal error surfaced, significantly exceeding all others in frequency. This error prevented users from editing documents without a reload, specifically affecting Chrome users starting with a particular release.

The incident occurred during a standard weekly bug review. Despite its severity, there wasn't a corresponding increase in user complaints, casting doubt on its actual impact. The limited stack trace information hindered the debugging process. The author first attempted to reproduce the error in a development environment. This was done to rule out the Closure Compiler and simplify the debugging process by working with unoptimized code.

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