Jem

for The DEV Team

Posted on Sep 24 AI-assisted

Congrats to the Summer Bug Smash Winners!

#bugsmash #devchallenge #performance #debugging

Includes cool prizes like Sentry skateboards

We are thrilled to announce the winners of DEV's Big Summer Bug Smash powered by Sentry!

This challenge asked you to find your biggest rockstar bugs and give them an epic grand finale, and you delivered. We got real pull requests against real codebases, performance wins measured and verified, and debugging stories that had us cheering in victory.

Thank you to everyone who participated.

Now, let's celebrate our winners!

🐞 Clear the Lineup Winners

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Sergei Parfenov

Jul 31

The Bug That Crashes Your Import Is the Lucky One

#devchallenge #bugsmash #python #opensource

6 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

vigneshwar

Aug 16

16 Redis commands. 0 spans. A hook that looked perfectly correct.

#devchallenge #bugsmash #opensource #go

7 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

NieJingChuan

Jul 20

How a Missing Secret Made Agent Tool Credentials Predictable, and How We Made It Fail Closed

#devchallenge #bugsmash #security #opensource

7 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Pentine Pejay

Aug 21

An 80-second browser freeze in Zulip's Manage channels, fixed by killing quadratic DOM work

#devchallenge #bugsmash

5 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

MartinDelophy

Jul 21

Fixing a Mobile Click-Through Bug Caused by Unmounting a React Portal on PointerDown

#devchallenge #bugsmash #react #javascript

4 min read

🪲 Smash Stories Winners

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories Submission 🐛🛹

xbill for Google Developer Experts

Jul 15

Why did my benchmark stop at N=22? A debugging story in nine bugs

#bugsmash #debugging #ai #python

4 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

Christo

Jul 26

Ctrl+S said "Saved." The file was 0 bytes.

#devchallenge #bugsmash #cpp #qt

6 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

Aliaksei Zelianouski

Aug 16

Rise and fall of a self-fixing agent

#devchallenge #bugsmash #agents #ai

12 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories Submission 🐛🛹

Aashita

Jul 15

The SSE Fragmentation Catastrophe That Took Down CareerPilot AI

#devchallenge #bugsmash

6 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories 🐛🛹

Sergey Inozemtsev

Jul 17

Gemini returned 429 at 2.3% of its documented quota. My retry loop ran for 4 days.

#bugsmash #devchallenge #googlecloud #gemini

6 min read

🛹 Best Use of Sentry Winners

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Germán Massello

Aug 22

The bug report was wrong, and that was the interesting part

#devchallenge #bugsmash

8 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Asuran

Aug 11

Sentry's trace said gemini-flash-latest. Google served gemini-3.6-flash.

#devchallenge #bugsmash #python #ai

9 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

JonathanSolvesProblems

Aug 19

Python can't weakref a ValueError. Sentry's deduplication found out the expensive way.

#devchallenge #bugsmash #python #debugging

12 min read

✨ Best Use of Google AI Winners

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Malbolged

Jul 17

Smashing a silent connection leak in node-postgres (pg-pool)

#bugsmash #node #postgres #opensource

7 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Hassan Imam

Aug 22

Two AI debuggers found the same bug. Both stopped one function short.

#devchallenge #bugsmash #python #opensource

9 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Dhruv

Aug 21

Six silent bugs in a voice AI phone line

#devchallenge #bugsmash

12 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Yuva Kunaal

Jul 16

When Batching Your AI Agents Makes Them Read Each Other's Mail

#devchallenge #bugsmash #ai #opensource

7 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Uptime Architect

Aug 1

Zulip logged 'Successfully processed.' Your reply was already gone.

#devchallenge #bugsmash #python #opensource

8 min read

🐛 Runner-Ups

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Mir Shah

Aug 15

I Used Sentry to Expose a Silent Data-Loss Bug with Zero Errors

#devchallenge #bugsmash #ai #development

9 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Ethan Park

Aug 21

Fix: A Missing .catch() That Crashes Your Entire Node.js Process (ethers.js WebSocket Provider)

#devchallenge #bugsmash

3 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Himanshu Kumar

Jul 20

The smolagents bug that made my agent retry the same valid code three times

#devchallenge #bugsmash #python #ai

4 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Lewis Sawe

Aug 21

Fixing a null-body crash in the Formbricks survey SDK, found by Sentry

#devchallenge #bugsmash

7 min read

Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup 🐛🛹

Talha Anwar

Aug 11

Our SDK Cached One User's Answer and Served It to the Next One Who Asked

#bugsmash #devchallenge #devops #ai

7 min read

Prizes

All winners will receive a cash prize, a DEV++ Membership, and an exclusive DEV badge. Our three Best Use of Sentry winners will also receive a limited edition Sentry skateboard.

All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

What's Next?

We've got two other challenges running right now. Join today!

Open-ended scope for custom model testing

Jem for The DEV Team

Sep 23

Join the Kaggle Benchmarking Challenge: $2,500 in Prizes for FIVE Winners!

#devchallenge #kagglebenchmarkchallenge #machinelearning #ai

105

4 min read

Jem for The DEV Team

Sep 18

Join the Sanity Challenge: $2,500 in prizes for FIVE winners!

#sanitychallenge #devchallenge #agents #webdev

206

8 min read

Thanks again to all who participated. This one was really fun.

Happy coding 🐛🛹

Top comments (7)

Jem The DEV Team • Sep 24

Congrats to the amazing Best Use of Sentry winners @gmassello, @zkasuran, @jonathansolvesstuff! Please make sure you wear a helmet when you're cruising on your new Sentry skateboard.

Also, congrats to Best Use of Google AI winners @malbolged, @hassan_shah_733ea1eb37c88, @mycmdhub, @yuva_kunaal, @uptimearchitect!