Johnnie and the Infinite Loop

A Developer's Superpower and His Adoring Fans

Johnnie was a developer with a rare superpower. Every time he fixed one bug, three new ones appeared, like a cursed hydra made of semicolons. His QA friends, Minnie, Mippie, and Muppie, adored him for this. Every time Johnnie said, “All bugs are fixed,” they appeared out of nowhere with coffee, popcorn, and a list of 47 new test cases.

The 'Flawless' Deployment

One day, Johnnie promised his manager, “This update will be flawless.” Seconds after deployment, the office lights flickered, the printer screamed, and Slack started sending messages from the company coffee machine. Minnie called it “progress.” Johnnie traced the logs, followed the stack traces, and discovered the problem: he had accidentally named a variable godMode. Nobody knew what it did, including him.

“By 3 a.m., the system finally ran without errors. The next morning, the QA trio confirmed it by breaking it in a new way no one thought possible. It’s not a bug. It’s a QA feature.”