The Eternal Cat And Mouse Debugging Game

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Content How I Feel Complete the sentences to show how you feel about bugs. Bugs make me feel ) When I see o bug. I say nothing Complete the picture to show an expression you might make when you see a bug.

Content How did you fix that production Bug? SENIOR DEV Commented the code. INTERN

The eternal corporate software development cycle in its natural habitat! First, a manager drops the mystical term "vibe coding" without any actual specifications. The dev somehow translates this cosmic brain request into actual code, only for the manager to "test" it without reading a single line of what was built. Then comes the inevitable bug complaints, followed by fixes, followed by more not-reading-the-code, and finally the chef's kiss: "good job but be faster next time" or a complimentary verbal beatdown. And just like your favorite trauma, it repeats indefinitely! It's like playing technical Whac-A-Mole where the mole is wearing a tie and has the power to schedule more meetings.

Someone asked for the worst tech advice and honestly, this is peak developer wisdom right here. Just wrap everything in a try-catch block and throw it into the void. Error handling? Never heard of her. Stack traces? Who needs 'em when you can just silently fail and pretend nothing happened. This is basically the programming equivalent of sweeping dirt under the rug and calling it cleaning. Your app crashes? Try-catch. Database connection fails? Try-catch. Existential crisis at 2 AM? Believe it or not, also try-catch. The catch block stays empty though—because acknowledging problems is for people who have time for proper error handling. Production bugs will love you for this approach. Future you will definitely not be cursing past you while debugging why the application just... stops working with zero logs or error messages. Ship it!

The first boss battle in programming isn't writing code—it's getting your development environment to work. Nothing quite captures the soul-crushing despair of spending 4 hours trying to install dependencies only to be greeted with ModuleNotFound errors. You haven't even written a single line of actual code yet, but somehow you're already debugging cryptic error messages that might as well be written in ancient Sumerian. The tears are completely justified when your Saturday night plans transform from "build a cool app" to "desperately copy-pasting error messages into Stack Overflow until 3AM."