I found a silicon bug in a memory chip once. The chip was supposed to read out a unique ID, but instead read out all zeros. Doubly weird, because it was a flas

I found a silicon bug in a memory chip once. The chip was supposed to read out a unique ID, but instead read out all zeros. Doubly weird, because it was a flash chip. You’d expect a blank flash chip to spit out all 0xff, not all 0x00. I ran it past the lead EE, and the lead software engineer, and the chip co FAEs, and they all said I must have done something wrong. But they all came back later having repro’ed my demo. Two months of kicking it up the chip co later, I got a nice note from the CEO of that chip company saying “Thanks for the bugfix” - with a bottle of Dom Perignon. That was a cool career highlight.