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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

mandelbug /man'del-buhg/ (From the Mandelbrot set) A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behaviour appear chaotic or even nondeterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug. [Jargon File] (1995-02-08)
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

mandelbug /man'del·buhg/, n. [from the Mandelbrot set] A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.