Where's Waldo Bug

Definitions

1. A bug that is especially hard to spot because it hides among many distractions. In engineering slang, a Where's Waldo bug is the one tiny wrong thing buried in a giant field of mostly normal detail.

   In plain English: A bug that is very hard to find because it is hidden among lots of other detail.

   Example: "The off-by-one in the paging logic was a true Where's Waldo bug, buried in logs full of legitimate edge-case noise."

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