Bug Amnesia

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Bug Amnesia

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The classic developer rabbit hole in its purest form. You dive into the codebase with laser focus on fixing that annoying bug, only to stumble across another horrifying issue that demands immediate attention. Two hours and seventeen Stack Overflow tabs later, you've fixed something completely unrelated and have absolutely zero recollection of what you were originally trying to solve. It's like walking into a room and forgetting why you're there, except the room is filled with spaghetti code and technical debt. The circle of debugging life continues...

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