Sometimes really it is the tool underneath you that is broken: I've been fortunate enough to not hit a CPU bug, but I sure have hit OS bugs, and definitely data

Sometimes really it is the tool underneath you that is broken: I've been fortunate enough to not hit a CPU bug, but I sure have hit OS bugs, and definitely database bugs, and runtime environment bugs. In those cases, however, the bugs have to be understood as features, because your chances of changing them might be very low. If your database doesn't match documented behavior, or sometimes refuses to return the right thing, the application developer has to find a way to get the result they need anyway. You can report the bug, or if you are lucky send a PR, but until it's all approved and released, bugs have to be worked around and accepted: Little is fixed by screaming.