Fixing Errors Is Scary

Nothing hits quite like that dopamine rush when you write a massive chunk of code and it runs flawlessly on the first try. It's that rare moment when you feel like you've temporarily ascended to godhood in the programming universe. No debugging required. No stack traces. No cryptic error messages. Just pure, unfiltered validation that maybe—just maybe—you actually know what you're doing. The fact that 978 developers upvoted this speaks volumes about how universally rare and euphoric this experience truly is.

Content The api always returns a 200: OK message even for wrong requests, however it gives an error message out with the exact reason should something be wrong. Error layout: "error": f'Error reasor

Content Coworker: so how did you solve the bug? Me: Ostrich algorithm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In computer science, the ostrich algorithm is a strategy of ignoring potential problems on the basis that they may be exceedingly rare. It is named for the ostrich effect which is defined as "to stick one's head in the sand and pretend there is no problem". It is used when it is more cost-effective to allow the problem to occur than to attempt its prevention.

Ah, the circle of developer life. Junior devs step on rakes by not documenting code, then get smacked in the face when they forget how their own sorcery works a week later. Meanwhile, seniors are out here doing sick skateboard tricks with proper documentation, clean code, and READMEs... but still wiping out spectacularly when that one function they wrote 6 months ago might as well be ancient Sumerian. The real truth? Nobody remembers how anything works. The difference is seniors have learned to leave themselves breadcrumbs for when future-them inevitably becomes an amnesiac.

The secret sauce of modern development revealed! When asked about becoming a coder, the honest answer isn't four years of computer science or mastering algorithms—it's just endlessly Googling error messages until something magically works. The uncomfortable truth is that 90% of our "expertise" is knowing exactly what to search for and which Stack Overflow answer to copy-paste. ChatGPT is just Google with extra steps and fewer captchas asking us to identify traffic lights.

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