Monday, September 25, 2023

Resolving Issue vs Fixing Bug

 

I was researching Akshaya Patra (don't ask why), no not the organisation, rather, the original Akshaya Patra Draupadi had, to feed her family and their visitors during their sojourn in the forrest, an ephiphany struck me and I realised the difference between fixing a bug and resolving an issue. 

The story goes, Draupadi was granted the Akshaya Patra to feed her family and the multitude of visitors who (without caring for a queen who might have never cooked in her life, trying to manage in a forrest) visited the Pandavas while (I cannot corroborate this) none of the boys helped her cook (maybe Bhima did, he knew his food). This vessel had a bug though, it stopped working for the day once Draupadi ate (talk of misogamy, requiring that she ate last). What was the poor woman to do if Bhima came back at 3pm asking for a snack, tell him to go pick a berry, well that's not our issue though.

Once sage Durvasa comes to visit the Pandavas, and asks to be fed with all his disciples, he conveniently times his entry to just after Draupadi had eaten, so now the bug became a production issue. Draupadi desperately calls Krishna, the developer, the problem solver, the tester, the everything, he arrives promptly, and understands the issue, but asks first for some food (maybe he wanted to test if the bug really exists) to satiate him, all he finds is a morsel of rice and a small piece of vegetable in the dish, Krishna maha prabhu eats that and exclaims "I am full, I cannot eat another morsel" now Sri Krishna is the supreme being, Lord Vishnu incarnate, when he says he is full, every being in the entire universe, leave alone earth becomes satiated (imagine what that could do to the world hunger index). Now the sage and his disciples a find themselves in a pickle, they had asked to be fed, but cannot eat another morsel and so rather than apologise, ask for a doggy bag, slink away, Jai Shri Krishna issue resolved.

Now this is an example of where the issue gets resolved, but the bug does not get fixed.


P.S. The Akshaya Patra was supposed to stop working once the 14 years of exile ended, that means the bug disappeared after 14 years of its creation.

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