A series of anecdotal software failures highlights the absurdity of coding errors. One user encountered a price tag displayed as "NaN," while another noted a pizza delivery estimate that appeared to have occurred four hours in the past due to a conflict between UTC and CST time zones.

Other mishaps include a promotional system that offered six coupons totaling 0% in savings and a dispute over whether the acronym FAQ should be pronounced as a word or as individual letters.

In a particularly frustrating case, a developer working on a game engine's runtime spritesheet packer encountered a bug where an error message replaced all relevant variable names with the letter 'g', rendering the diagnostic information completely useless.