The Five Stages Of Debugging Grief

The annual summer ritual of developer suffering has begun. First panel: you're coding next to your PC that's running hotter than Satan's kitchen, fans screaming for mercy. Second panel: you open a window hoping for relief, but instead invite nature's most annoying debuggers. Third panel: moths, attracted to your screen like QA is to that one edge case you forgot to handle, turn your home office into a rainbow rave party. And you thought memory leaks were your biggest problem today.

So this is why my code breaks in production. Turns out bugs aren't just randomly appearing—they're being strategically trained to give wrong answers and crash systems. That cockroach teacher asking "what is 2+4?" and getting "5," "9," and "8" as answers isn't incompetence—it's a feature! By the third panel, they've mastered the art of being consistently wrong and are ready for their mission: total programmer destruction. No wonder my perfectly working code suddenly can't do basic math in production. These little monsters have been preparing for this their whole lives.

Content I explained why it's giving that error. I also posted three different ways to fix it, each one with it's pros and cons. And finally ladded a URL for those who need more information. I just posted a code that works, without any explanation

The evolution of a programmer in one tweet. Juniors frantically Google "how to implement X" while seniors spend their time figuring out which parts of the spec can be safely ignored. The real 10x developer isn't the one who writes 10x more code—it's the one smart enough not to write it in the first place. Less code = fewer bugs = fewer 2AM production incidents. Wisdom isn't knowing what to add, it's knowing what to leave out.

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute DRAMA of software development in one image! 😱 Users are just sitting there with dead eyes when something works correctly like "yeah, whatever, it SHOULD work" while developers are having FULL-BLOWN CARDIAC EVENTS over the same thing! That millisecond search query? Users are like "meh" but the dev team is SCREAMING and POINTING like they've witnessed actual sorcery. The sheer AUDACITY of users to be so unbothered by our technical miracles! Meanwhile we're over here ready to pop champagne because our query didn't crash the entire database. THE INJUSTICE!

Content Coworker: so how did you solve the bug? Me: Ostrich algorithm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In computer science, the ostrich algorithm is a strategy of ignoring potential problems on the basis that they may be exceedingly rare. It is named for the ostrich effect which is defined as "to stick one's head in the sand and pretend there is no problem". It is used when it is more cost-effective to allow the problem to occur than to attempt its prevention.