How OpenAI Solved an 18-Year-Old Bug Using Epidemiological Methods
OpenAI engineers recently resolved a series of elusive, long-standing system crashes in Rockset, the C++ data infrastructure service supporting ChatGPT plugins, by identifying a 18-year-old race condition in the GNU libunwind library. The investigation revealed that the failures were not a single issue, but two distinct syndromes: one caused by faulty hardware and another by … Read more