Debugging Chair Is More Comfortable

Content Shefali ShefaliJ.10h Me debugging The bug Prodrammer

Content Well, VSCode is not raising up anything... the browser isn't reporting any errors... Only one thing left to do: STARE AT THE CODE!!!!

Opening that GitHub repo after half a year feels like deep-sea archaeology. The code is some ancient artifact, buried under 3775.6 meters of mental context you've completely forgotten. You stare at your own comments thinking "What kind of sleep-deprived maniac wrote this?" before realizing it was you, at 2AM, fueled by energy drinks and misplaced confidence. The worst part? That brilliant architecture you were so proud of now looks like someone let a neural network write code after training it exclusively on Stack Overflow answers from 2011.

The eternal battle between sophisticated debugging tools and the humble print statement. When faced with a complex bug, we all pretend we'll use those fancy debuggers with breakpoints and stack traces. Then reality hits and we're just throwing print("test") statements everywhere like a medieval knight charging into battle with nothing but a shield and pure audacity. Sure, IDEs offer us the programming equivalent of nuclear weapons, but sometimes you just want to stab the problem with a pointy stick and see what leaks out. The simplest solution is often the most reliable—especially when you're on your 5th coffee and deadline was yesterday.

The classic developer paradox: your boss thinks you're a requirements-gathering genius, while you're just an anxious mess who can't stop imagining everything that could possibly go wrong. That's not autism—that's just software development working as intended. The real miracle is maintaining that poker face during the congratulatory handshake while mentally reviewing the 47 edge cases you forgot to document.

Content Write code Write tests The tests fail The tests fail Write more tests to narrow down the problem Those tests pass The bug was in the test