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Re:Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents... by throw1234567891 on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:13PM (#50048430)
The metaphor from the title does not speak to me. Treat bugs like patients. How. By making bugs "feel better and be stronger"? I'm sure they mean "treating bugs like illnesses".
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Re:Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents... by jakubmazanec on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:25PM (#50048559)
Exactly. It's the app that is being treated like a patient.
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Re:Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents... by rafiss on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:58AM (#50058294)
Fair, the codebase might be more accurately described as the patient and the bug is the ailment it's being treated for.

The original idea of the metaphor is that a "github issue" is a patient that enters the hospital, gets "treated" (by being resolved), then leaves the hospital. The metaphor gets mixed up when we start using the word "bug" and "github issue" interchangeably.

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