Code Review Paradox: Eagle Eyes For Others, Blind As A Bat For Self

Code review Blind spots Cognitive bias Programmer problems Self-review bugs Spaghetti code Pull requests

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Code Review Paradox: Eagle Eyes For Others, Blind As A Bat For Self

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The superhuman ability to spot a missing semicolon in someone else's 5000-line codebase vs. the complete blindness to your own glaringly obvious infinite loop that's been crashing production for three days. The cognitive dissonance is real! Your brain literally transforms into Patrick Star when reviewing your own masterpiece of spaghetti code. It's like having microscopic vision for others' syntax errors but developing sudden selective code blindness the moment you open your own pull request.

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