The Lion Does Not Debug

The four-stage grief cycle of programming: Write code with naive optimism Run it and watch your hopes evaporate Realize your code is a perfect mirror of your chaotic mind Curl up in fetal position as the existential dread sets in Ten years into my career and I still cycle through these stages at least twice before lunch. The only difference now is I keep tissues at my desk and my therapist on speed dial.

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The mythical "just read the documentation" advice strikes again! Sure, because all documentation is as clear as these LEGO instructions showing you exactly where to connect pieces with big red arrows. Meanwhile, the actual docs we deal with are more like "The function does what it does. See function." Eight years as a tech lead and I've yet to encounter documentation that doesn't require three Stack Overflow tabs and a direct message to the one dev who wrote it (who conveniently left the company three years ago). The real senior dev move? Skimming the docs, then reverse-engineering how it actually works.

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Content Days before OpenAI Developer coding - 2 hours Developer debugging - 6 hours Days after OpenAI ChatGPT generates Codes - 5 min Developer debugging - 24 hours

The new developer took "Make the clock hands show the current time" a bit too literally. Instead of rotating analog hands, they just slapped the actual timestamp values onto the clock face. Classic case of malicious compliance meets unclear requirements! This is what happens when you inherit code with zero context and the documentation is just a Post-it note. The PM probably envisioned elegant rotating hands, but the dev thought "well technically these digital values DO show the current time..." and shipped it. Requirements passed, elegance failed.