Three Stages Of Debugging

Starting a new coding project is like the top panel—stoic, methodical, calm. "I'll follow best practices. I'll document everything." Two hours later, you're in the bottom panel—screaming at your monitor because your perfectly reasonable code is throwing 47 errors and the Stack Overflow answer from 2011 just made things worse. The transformation from "I'm a professional engineer" to "WHY WON'T YOU COMPILE, YOU STUPID MACHINE?!" happens faster than your IDE can autocomplete.

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The eternal CI/CD death spiral in its natural habitat! What we're witnessing is the beautiful disaster of a developer's 48-hour wrestling match with GitHub Actions. Starting with existential dread ("god has abandoned us"), progressing through false hope ("fixed CICD finally"), then the desperate environment variable tweaking, config file adjustments, and finally the primal scream of "pls fix workflow :))))" – which is developer code for "I'm one failed build away from a career change." The commit messages tell the whole tragic story: ten commits over two days just to get a workflow running. The real kicker? That "fixed CICD finally it was literally 2 lines smh" – the universal experience of spending 8 hours debugging only to find you forgot a semicolon.

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That smug little face says it all. The cat (labeled "Cursor AI") sits there with that self-satisfied grin while staring at the waffle ("The code that broke production") like it's about to devour the evidence. Nothing quite matches the special feeling of watching your teammate's cursor float around the screen in real-time as they confidently add that one magical line of code that brings down the entire system. "Trust me, this will fix it!" they say, right before Slack explodes with alerts and your phone starts having a seizure with PagerDuty notifications. But of course, this "didn't happen at your company." Just like how nobody ever pushed to main on Friday at 4:55 PM.

The classic paradox that breaks every programmer's brain. The genie offers three wishes, but the clever human creates a logical contradiction by wishing the genie "doesn't grant this wish." If granted, it wasn't granted. If not granted, it was granted. Just like when your recursive function calls itself without a proper exit condition. The genie's brain is essentially hitting a stack overflow error as it tries to process this infinite logical loop. No amount of cloud computing can save this poor blue fellow from the ultimate edge case.