People Are Sharing Pics Of The Worst Software Fails They’ve Encountered And They’re Hilarious (50 New Pics)
[Beep boop, does not compute.] Computers and their software are only as smart as the people who program them. And even then, no programmer is perfect: there might be a small error in the code, a pesky bug, or an unexpected glitch that makes the software do what it’s not supposed to. The results can be hilarious and might get you chuckling whether you’re a coding tech veteran or you cheekily press your PC’s ‘off’ button when prompted to ‘press any button to continue.’
Our team here at Bored Panda loves humor and thinks that it’s one of the most powerful tools in anyone’s arsenal when life gets dark, dangerous, and depressing. So we’ve surfed all over the net to bring you these glorious software fails that would make even ‘The Matrix’ glitch out. Scroll down and remember to upvote the pics you liked the most, dear Pandas. Tell us all about the worst software chaos that you’ve personally seen in the comment section at the bottom of this list.
And if you’re hungry for some more digital laughter, take a peek at our previous article about software hilarity right here.
Steven Wooding, a member of the Institute of Physics in the UK and part of the Omni Calculator Project, who created the fun and useful Weird Units Converter, explained to Bored Panda how he approaches software bugs and glitches.
"I'm a physicist, so I like to use the scientific method when debugging troublesome code. If it's a bug that a user has reported, the first job is to reproduce the bug yourself. If you can't, then maybe there's a problem with something outside your control," he explained to us his approach. "Once you've reproduced it, develop a hypothesis as to why the software is behaving incorrectly and test it. Once you have a proven theory, it's time to fix the bug, then try again to see if the issue is resolved. You have to be careful, though, as the fix might introduce another bug. Having a standard set of tests will help catch such errors."
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Guess I’ll Be Living Unhealthy
Physicist Steven, who is part of the Omni Calculator Project, agreed with Bored Panda that computers are only as smart as the people who programmed them.
"A computer will do precisely what you tell it to do. No computer language yet developed will get the gist of what you want it to do and correct all your mistakes. That's why bugs are very easy to make and very frustrating learning to program," he said. Alas! A program that could interpret what we're trying to do would be a godsend and might get even more people into coding.
Noodles
Chicken And Egg Problems
According to Steven, there should be a way to fix things, as long as you know that the problem lies with your code. At this point, patience and diligence are key.
"You just have to preserve with it until it's fixed. This may mean stepping through the code one line at a time, seeing how values change, just before the bug strikes. If the values are not what you expect, track back through the code to see how those values were derived to help find the bug. There is a great feeling of accomplishment once you've squashed a bug."
Quite A Nice Run I Had This Evening
Do Negative Numbers Count?
Generosity Is Not Their Specialty
Very recently, Bored Panda had a good long chat about the programming world with software engineer and all-around creative Andrew Eckel. He explained that when someone’s pushed to learn a new programming language, it can lead to a lot of growth.
"My undergrad program was taught in C++, but where I went to grad school, they used Java. To catch up, I wound up taking graduate-level classes and the freshman intro class in the same semester. My fellow students in the freshman class wondered how I suddenly became their TA in the following semester," he gave an example from his own life.
My Sim Slept While Carrying A Plate
This Planetarium's Computer Crashed
But I Forgot My Face At Home
According to the software engineer, coding leaves a lot of room for creativity. He said that for anyone to say that programming isn’t creative is "like saying using a sewing machine isn't creative.”
He said: ”It's creative if you make something creative with it! It's a craft that can be done both artfully and in the service of creating great art. Or you can program a garage door opener with it."
Andrew added, jokingly: "If people say it isn't creative, you won't hear them over the sound of your garage door closing."
A Few Years Ago, Zooming Out Made Everything Become Disappointment Lake
Awfully Specific
No, I Don't Think That's A Jam Bun
Meanwhile, sometime before that, Andrew said that debugging can actually be fun. Programming, as a whole, is very rewarding once the coder manages to figure out the puzzle in front of them.
"The best moment for any programmer is seeing something you built work for the first time. It seems almost too good to be true, when something goes from an idea to a bunch of lines of code, to something that actually works and is helpful," the programming expert said.
Tried Taking A Wide Angle Selfie, Spawned A Twin
Speechn’t
Yes You Are Train! Yes You Are
Are all trains pie? This seem like a very good way to get banned from the subway.
"You don't even need to invent anything to experience this thrill. Often it's just a matter of taking a well-known algorithm and applying it to a new situation,” he added.
“There are many great teachers out there who can teach about algorithms and the thought process of how to apply them—people who can take something that has the potential to be really dry and make it fun and interesting," Andrew noted that teaching programming is the same as teaching anything else: a lot depends on the teacher, not just the subject.
Work Training Is Going Well
So This Just Happened
When you have pressed every number for every option and finally get through to a real live human being after being on hold for 3 hours.....click
This Bus
not related but look how a whole a$$ water bottle is fitting in his pockets but women can't even fit phones :(
He stressed the fact that programmers have to learn to enjoy their daily lives that won’t be chock full of huge wins and breakthroughs.
"Those 'eureka' moments don't happen every day, but the day-to-day fun in programming is debugging. I know that sounds crazy because if you're debugging it usually means the code you wrote doesn't work! But everyone I work with feels this way. The more confusing and strange the program's behavior is, the more fun it is to unravel the mystery, find the cause, and fix it. It's like a puzzle."
I'm Really Alerted After This
What Do You Think?
2020 Didn't End In Romania
Aaron Genest, a manager with Siemens Technology, previously explained to Bored Panda what mindset we should have when considering the future of technology and making predictions.
"I'd argue that most people underestimate the timelines necessary to produce the technological goods on which we rely and the investment made to allow them to exist. By looking 'upstream' in that investment space, we can have a pretty good idea of what whole industries are betting on," he said.
My Child's BMI Is Apparently Infinite
Behold, My Brother’s Phone
Just My Casual Morning Run
"For instance, it takes almost two years to develop and produce a computer chip and get it to market for a phone, and five years to get something into a new kind of car. So if we want to have a sense for what, for instance, the gadgets in our cars will look like in 2026, we just need to look at what the car manufacturers are asking their suppliers to design today,” Aaron said.
The tech expert pointed out that technologies like 5G or various chips that receive billions of dollars of investments will likely stick around in the future. At least, long enough for the companies that invested into them to get their money’s worth.
Left The PC On Overnight For An Automatic Update, Returned To This
Woke Up To This, Panicked
Is it weird to not understand this, but still laugh like a maniac?
Cursed Heart Rate
As such, when making predictions about the future of tech, prognosticators look ‘upstream’ at recent and not-so-recent industry trends instead of relying “on some crystal ball they hide in their robes." That means that if you want to know what the future looks like, you'd best take a good long look at the present and past. Though, in either case, one thing's for sure: the future is bound to have plenty of hilarious glitches, as well. There's no getting rid of software bugs for good, no matter how advanced society might be.
This Is My Clock Now
And Then?
My PC Started Crashing All Around And My Mouse Cursor Started Duplicating So I Drew A House With It
This Weather Reporter Got Caught In An On-Air Graphics Error That "Multiplied" Her Across The Screen. Earth, Wind, And A Chance Of Scattered Showers
3s!$((* &%#~' ` ¬ ¦dsa
Umm, Apple?
French Is Such A Romantic Language
Good Old Fallout 4
A Comforting Sign Before Watching A Horror Movie At My Local Cinema
Nope! Turn your head around and walk straight, and don’t forget to pass by the church
Let's Get Some Food At?
Yes, I Got Successfully $0
Just Got This Ad
Greek Architecture
"Use Food Mode"
Well, Kudos To The Devs
My Package Had A Meltdown
Guess I’ll Open The Window For A Bit Of Fresh Air
I'm Not An Expert In Chess But This Doesn't Seem Fair
You don't have a king.. so they can't take it and you can't lose. Good luck!
Where Can I Buy
All Of My Shortcuts Have Been Tainted With Assassin's Creed Syndicate Icons
Just Why
Portal Between Lithuania And Poland
If only there was a portal between Ukraine and anywhere except Russia
"Where Are We Going To Again?"
My Younger Brother Sent Me This
The Caption Is Scarily Accurate
Guess I'm Up For Anything
Got A Little Lost
Default Help Message
My Score For The German Test. Just Perfect
I Present To You, Windows 40
Makes Sense
Typical Texas
My Sim Just Casually Floating In The Air
Please Stop, You're Scaring Me
No Comment
I'm 100% Not Sure How I Should Proceed
The Air Quality In Delhi Is So Bad That It Overflowed And Is Now Safe
Diesel Prices Are Awfully Cheap Today
closest I ever saw to that was when I was 16 and working at a gas station. One of my coworkers got promoted to assistant manager. One of his new responsibilities was setting the pump price if it changed. We got a message to change it to something like 1.59/gal. you would enter that in the computer as 1599(no decimals used in the system). He entered it as 159, which the system read as $0.15 and 9/10ths. only lasted about an hour before we caught it, but boy was he in trouble
Behold, As This Calc Is Speaking The Language Of Gods
It looks like all the things for each number is over lapping. Like the square root is overlapping with the 5.
How Did This Even Happen
Next Stop... LSD Land?
So I Glitched Out A Snapchat Filter… This Might Be The Most Terrifying Thing I’ve Ever Seen
McAfee Is Refusing Its Fate
Ah Yes, I Agree Bread Kinda Is That
Text File On Paper
Yes, That’s Exactly I Meant To Type
Only 18th Century Kids Will Remember This Game
I Guess I'm Not Shutting Down My PC Tonight
Sitting 10 Feet Away In My Bed And My Computer Woke Up From Its Slumber To Connect To The Void
Machine Learning
Borders Go Brrr
Something May Be Running Idk
My Brother’s Computer May Be Having Just A Small Issue… Just A Really Tiny One
My Favorite Food, The McMeal
I’ll take the meal, thank you. Serious though this if funny. What did u do?
Take Shelter Now In 9pi29ätqæ
France And The UK Now Share A Border
Very Nice
Anyone Know How To Fix This?
Now I Heard Of Dual Wielding, But Never Heard Of Dual Theming
Cyberpunk 2077 Crashed And My PC. Didn't Like It (Completely Frozen)
Delivery Man Committing To His Job
How Long Did I Sleep?
I Was Trying To Review For German, I Don't Think This Is German
I Love The Way The Old iPad Icons Look
I Just Wanna Use Chrome
Why Is A School Bus Texting My Sims
You Can't Spell "Line" With Those Letters
I Tried Opening A Document From Microsoft Teams
D-Do I Answer?
Apparently Chemistry Requires You To Have A Brief Concept Of Summoning Demons
Just Paid $A And 2u Cents For Gas. Gas Prices Getting Ridiculous
It Is Trying To Find Its Perfect Angle I Guess
Thank You, Adobe
I Only Have One Pair Of AirPods?
Cold War Has The Finest Graphics
I Mean, That Doesn’t Even Make Sense, Instagram
The Gas Prices Are Out Of Hand
So I Kinda Glitched The Weather App And Now It's Showing The Temperature In F But The C Won't Change
He Hates Having His View Being Blocked
No-One Gets The Correct Answer
Please Don't Disturb Me. I Am Busy, Can't You See I'm Multitasking
My Alarm Was Supposed To Be At 7
This Is Probably What Ascending To The 19th Dimension Looks Like
I May Have Opened To Many Windows
Had A Kurzesagt Clip As Walpaper
Riot Games You’ve Done It Again
You Don't Really Need 3D Glasses
Ah Yes My Favourite Game
Absolutely Gorgeous
"What Time Is It?" "Oh It's MT:RC"
Anyone notice the date? This screenshot was taken exactly two years ago (Unless it's somewhere besides America, then its November 3rd)
PS4 Fell Asleep With Prime Going. Turned It Back On To Find This
Unlimited WiFi, Let’s Go
I Can't Update My Password Because My Old Password Is Insecure
What Do You Want?
Do I Or Not
I'm Helping My Brother Fix His PC And Ran Across Baby Yobama And His Brothers
My Desktop Started Crashing
New Mount And Blade Game Brings Some New Glitches
PoGo Has Very... Odd Bugs
Good Ol' Xbox
W-What
I Don't Think That Is My AK Skin
This Is How I Didn't Eat Dinner Yesterday
And for some reason we are all okay with this. Some times I have to turn my car off and then turn it on again to get the turn signals to work.
I was recently on a website of an art school and they had dark blue letters and a black background. You could literally read barely anything. Not really a program error I think. I guess just someone who wanted to make it look more fancy amd artsy. 🤦♀️
I went to art school and their graphic design on websites, signs, etc was consistently terrible. The school has buses because there’s no one campus, it’s all over, and you should’ve seen the godawful designs they had one year. But also the student portal (where our school email was, class info, school announcements) glitched the hell out one day, it was just tiles that said ERROR
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I was recently on a website of an art school and they had dark blue letters and a black background. You could literally read barely anything. Not really a program error I think. I guess just someone who wanted to make it look more fancy amd artsy. 🤦♀️
I went to art school and their graphic design on websites, signs, etc was consistently terrible. The school has buses because there’s no one campus, it’s all over, and you should’ve seen the godawful designs they had one year. But also the student portal (where our school email was, class info, school announcements) glitched the hell out one day, it was just tiles that said ERROR
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