https://codeinstances.com/tags/bug-reports/ Recent content in Bug Reports on CodeInstances.com Hugo en-us Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://codeinstances.com/how-a-bug-report-can-arrive-as-a-runnable-codeinstances-file/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://codeinstances.com/how-a-bug-report-can-arrive-as-a-runnable-codeinstances-file/ <p>You maintain a command-line tool that talks to an online service. An issue comes in: &ldquo;sync breaks against our account&rdquo;. You don&rsquo;t have their account. You can&rsquo;t see their data. You ask for logs, then a bigger log, then a screen share, and after a week of back and forth you still haven&rsquo;t seen the failure happen.</p> <p>The reporter could send the failure itself. If they run your tool under CodeInstances, the run is kept as a file with every request your tool made and every answer their account gave back:</p>