Kids Today Will Never Know What Its Like To Get Apapercut While Debugging

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Content 5 hours of debugging can sometimes help you save 5 minutes of reading documentation ProarammerHumor.

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Content Sasha Laundy SashaLaundy The best debugger ever made is a good night's Sleep. 10:19 AM Dec 1, 2017 Twitter Web Client 5,700 Retweets 285 Quote Tweets 14.2K Likes 17

This is the most accurate relationship status for developers I've ever seen. Who needs dating apps when you've got Stack Overflow? Just frantically copy-pasting random solutions while muttering "please work, please work" like some desperate code wizard performing a ritual. The debugging equivalent of throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping something sticks. We've all been there at 3 AM, surrounded by empty coffee cups, blindly trusting strangers on the internet more than our own judgment. It's not debugging—it's digital prayer.

That first hit of AI-generated code feels like pure magic. "Look at all this productivity!" Then reality sets in. What AI gives you in quantity, you pay back with interest in quality control. Sure, it wrote 10,000 lines in minutes, but now you're the poor soul who has to untangle that algorithmic spaghetti, patch the security holes big enough to drive a truck through, and explain to management why the project timeline just went from "done" to "we're just getting started." The hidden tax of instant code is always paid in developer tears.