Heisenbug
A bug that seems to disappear or change when one tries to study it. It's a pun on Werner Heisenberg, who discovered that the act of observing quantum systems inevitably alters their state.
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Naming › Other: “A bug that seems to disappear or change when one tries to study it. It's a pun on Werner Heisenberg, who discovered that the act of observing quantum systems inevitably alters their state.”