It's Happening: Debugging vs. Vibe Checks

Content stackoverflow engineers after using stackoverflow to fix issues in stackoverflow "Sometimes my genius is..it's almost frightening"

Content THERE ARE ONLY 2 HARD THINGS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: 0. Cache Invalidation 1. Naming Things 7. Asynchronous Callbacks 2. Off-by-one errors

The IDE has trust issues worse than my ex. It watches your every keystroke, ready to judge your code before you've even finished typing. Then the moment you complete the line, it suddenly retracts all its accusations like that coworker who talks behind your back then acts nice to your face. The digital equivalent of "I knew what you were doing all along" followed by the programmer's version of gaslighting. Classic Stockholm syndrome relationship between developer and tooling.

Someone's been reading Uncle Bob's "Clean Code" a bit too religiously! Instead of using normal array indexes like a sane person, they've created named constants for the values 0, 1, 2, and 3. It's like wearing a three-piece suit to take out the trash—technically more formal but completely unnecessary. This is what happens when you follow the "magic numbers are evil" principle without applying any common sense filter. Next up: creating a constant called PLUS_ONE because incrementing by 1 isn't self-documenting enough! 🤦‍♂️

Content Me: Thinks I finished a big project Bug that crashes the whole program: Bonjour

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