Debugging

The four horsemen of developer excuses, all deployed when your code mysteriously stops working in production. Option D is the programmer's equivalent of shrugging while slowly backing away from responsibility. "Works on my machine" has launched more Docker containers than any sales pitch ever could. The real answer should be E: "Let me check the logs and get back to you in 3-5 business days while I panic internally and question my career choices."

Sure, your AI agent built that app in 5 minutes, but good luck maintaining that spaghetti junction of code six months from now. The left shows traditional development—straightforward, predictable, maybe boring but gets you where you need to go. The right is modern AI development—looks impressive with all those fancy switches and signals, but one wrong move and your train derails into dependency hell. I've seen enough "AI-accelerated" projects crash and burn to know that speed now means tech debt later. The complexity always comes due.

Congratulations! You've achieved peak programmer efficiency by making your broken code run 0.002% faster. The compiler might be screaming, the logic might be completely backward, and your future self will definitely curse your name—but hey, that apostrophe optimization is something to put on your resume. "Debugged code? No. Made wrong code slightly more efficient at being wrong? Absolutely."

Content Me going to bed knowing full well I spent the whole day stealing other people's code and merging them into an absolute monstrosity that will be a nightmare to go through and bug fix ProdrammerHumor.io

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Content Wanna be a programmer?? Muhammad Hasan Khan 1st Software Engineer - Opinions are my own 31 I fixed a bug today and after feeling satisfied with my accomplishment for the day, I decided to leave a bit early. As I was driving home, my brain started reviewing my code and found a mistake. I came home and fixed the mistake. And now that I'm about to go to bed, I just realized that there is a better way to fix the bug so I should just discard my earlier change and start over. Do you want to be a programmer? CEO 1,019 66 comments 22 shares