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The county moved quickly to bring the new system online, raising questions about how much time officials allotted for debugging the software and training employees on the new technology.

Lured by a better price and shinier features, Riverside, Inyo and Monterey counties made the switch to Genasys after spending about a year testing, debugging and training staff on the software.

Today, people use it for literally everything — from planning their trips around the globe and debugging code to creating dinner recipes, scripting social media posts and customizing cover letters.

"It took a lot of hours staring at a computer, and a lot of debugging, frantically texting and emailing each other to figure this out," Santos recalls.

Few tasks are more tedious than debugging software — a process that can consume as much as 50% of an engineer’s time.