The Four Stages Of Debugging Grief

The four stages of debugging grief: denial, anger, bargaining, and finally... enlightenment. You spend hours staring at your code, repeatedly asking "Why?" with increasing desperation until you finally paste it into Stack Overflow. Then—magically—the solution becomes blindingly obvious the exact moment someone else looks at it. Your brain suddenly decides to function properly, making you feel like the world's most competent idiot. It's like your code is deliberately gaslighting you until it has an audience.