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Essay Argues Most Software Bugs Go Unnoticed by Users, Not Absent

A software engineer describes a decade-long pattern of noticing hundreds to thousands of software bugs weekly that most colleagues and users simply don't perceive. He explains that companies sometimes hire him specifically to test products because he reliably surfaces defects others miss, ranging from minor glitches to cases where products are effectively broken despite internal claims that everything works fine.