# OpenAI — Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/core-dump-epidemiology-data-infrastructure-bug
- Record: https://forck.live/items/46-core-dump-epidemiology-fixing-an-18-year-old-bug

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/core-dump-epidemiology-data-infrastructure-bug:

> OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

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