I Am Not Ashamed (But You Should Be)

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I Am Not Ashamed (But You Should Be)

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The evolution of debugging tactics is a beautiful, painful journey. Junior devs proudly announcing they debug with console logs like it's revolutionary technology, while senior devs—who've suffered through enough production fires to develop a thousand-yard stare—know that proper logging is just the beginning. After your fifth 2AM incident caused by insufficient diagnostics, you too will develop strong opinions about structured logging, tracing, and monitoring. The shame isn't using console.log—it's thinking that's enough.

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