The Four Stages Of Debugging Grief

That smug feeling when your teammates are frantically adding console.log() statements everywhere, using fancy debuggers, and setting breakpoints—while you just sit there, manually reading through the code like it's 1975, and somehow find the bug first. The superiority is palpable . Sometimes the old ways are the best ways. Nothing beats the raw power of actually understanding what the hell the code is supposed to do.

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The ETERNAL DILEMMA of our generation! You've spent 17 hours crafting what you think is a masterpiece of code, and in your desperate need for validation, you ask that fateful question: "Does my code look good?" And what do you get? Senior Dev with years of battle scars and crushed dreams says "No" with the emotional range of a brick wall. Meanwhile, the LLM—that digital yes-man with no actual coding experience—is practically GUSHING with approval! And there you are, caught in the middle, desperately wanting to believe the AI that's never had to debug at 4am while crying into a Red Bull. The betrayal! The DRAMA! Welcome to 2024, where we trust machines that were trained on Stack Overflow more than humans who actually know what they're doing! 💀

The eternal developer dilemma: Are you actually incompetent or just suffering from imposter syndrome? Spoiler alert: your brain will always choose the most psychologically damaging option! First you're clueless, then you diagnose yourself with imposter syndrome, then a colleague helpfully suggests you're just plain incompetent, and finally your brain doubles down on imposter syndrome anyway. It's like your mind is running a particularly sadistic if-else statement where both conditions lead to self-doubt. The real bug isn't in your code—it's in your head.

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Why spend time writing documentation when you can spend twice as much time whining about its absence? Nothing unites developers quite like the sacred ritual of rejecting the task of documenting code, then immediately launching into a 45-minute rant when someone else's undocumented module breaks your build. The documentation paradox: nobody wants to write it, everybody demands it exists.