Built From Trauma

Senior devs don't find bugs quickly because they're smarter—they find them because they've already made every mistake humanly possible. That function that crashes when you pass null? Yeah, they wrote that exact bug in 2009 and spent three days debugging it at 2 AM. The off-by-one error? Caused a production outage in 2012. They're not psychic, they're just scarred veterans who recognize the crime scene because they committed the same crime years ago. Experience is just a fancy word for "collection of past failures."