Debugging For Professionals

Content Wow, a different error message... Finally some progress! ProgrammerHumor.

That moment when you trade your cushy FAANG job with its fancy processes for "startup culture" and discover what that actually means. You went from "our CI/CD pipeline automatically runs 10,000 tests before deployment" to "we push straight to production at 4:59 PM on Friday and pray." From "comprehensive wiki" to "ask Dave, he's been here 3 months longer than everyone else." From "work-life balance" to "we're a family" (translation: you live here now). But hey, there's free pizza sometimes. And those stock options might be worth something in 2057!

Your hacky code works because we convinced a fancy rock to do math. Let's not forget the crucial first steps though - we had to flatten said rock into a silicon wafer and zap it with electricity. Next time your janky regex actually matches what you want, thank the electrified pebble doing billions of calculations per second while having absolutely no idea what it's doing. It's like training a pet rock for the Olympics, except the rock doesn't even know it's competing.

Content finally solved the error in line 38 A new error in line 15: Bonjour

Content What others see What you see UI Good Spaghetti Code Magic WTF Magic Magic WHY?! WHY YOU STUPID FUCKING CUNT?! 1 got this figured out.

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