Story of an interesting bug, found (and solved) by Claude Code

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Two RNG bugs, one debugging session: DuckDB broadcasting a single random draw across 2,048 rows, and a standard-library uniform distribution with a clipped tail. Both produced plausible-looking numbers, both are invisible in code review — and both fell to a Monte Carlo checklist, run by Claude Code.

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