The Eternal Cat And Mouse Debugging Game

The IDE is like that annoying friend who's technically right but completely missing the point. "Possible null reference return" — yeah, no kidding, that's literally what I just typed. The method is return null; and the IDE is still like "Hey buddy, I think you might be returning null here!" Thanks for the groundbreaking analysis, Captain Obvious. Next you'll tell me water is wet and meetings could've been emails.

Gather 'round the campfire, kids! That's Mr. Krabs telling SpongeBob horror stories about the ancient debugging rituals. Back when Stack Overflow was just a gleam in Jeff Atwood's eye, we had to read man pages - these massive walls of cryptic text with more flags than the United Nations. No fancy IDEs with tooltips, no quick Google searches, just you and terminal output that might as well have been written in hieroglyphics. We'd spend hours deciphering parameters like archaeologists, only to find the solution was a single dash we missed on page 47. The youth today with their ChatGPT don't know the trauma of typing "man grep" and watching your evening disappear.

Content How others debug segmentation fault: (dbx) debug -c core MyApp.exe How I debug segmentation fault: print ("Reached here") . print ("Reached here too, Yay!")

Content My realtime system right now 186 debug print statements adding the perfect amount of delays

Content That bug which was observed only once by test team with video evidence but cannot be reproduced again Devil: Bug Well, I just wanna say that I'm a huge fan

Content I don't want to play with you anymore