Our JSP server would crash but only when the moons of Jupiter were aligned and the bakery across the street was serving the blueberry scone (CNR with the ham & cheese)
Engineers train a AI model to play an old game. One day their AI performs worse, on multiple hardware. Turns out the game has extra logic when it's full moon. "The player character is luckier, werewolves appear in their animal form, and the dogs howl ominously"
I was sad and directionless (sometimes angry) for a few years.
Then one day something sort of "clicked" and a new direction I wanted to go sort of crystalized, I pursued it and never looked back.
It helps that I can still pursue music as a hobby and don't feel the relentless pressure to be good -- so these days I actually get to enjoy many aspects of my dream when I feel like it and it stays fun.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3darti...
Its basically the software implementation of DirectX