When I've Been Debugging The Same Problem For A Week

Content debugging de-buhg-ing -verb. 1. being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.

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Ah, the ancient programmer trap in its natural habitat. Just prop up a milk crate with a stick, place StackOverflow, coffee, and a dark IDE theme underneath, and wait. Works every time. After 15 years in the industry, I can confirm this is basically our version of catnip. The dark theme alone would probably work, but why take chances? The coffee ensures we'll stay long enough to get caught, and StackOverflow guarantees we'll be distracted trying to explain why the accepted answer is actually wrong.

The eternal pain of expecting a simple true or false but getting "Yes" instead! Boolean questions should have binary answers, but somehow non-technical folks (and occasionally that one backend dev) manage to return strings like "Sure", "I think so", or my personal favorite: "It depends." The compiler in my brain throws a TypeError: Cannot convert String to Boolean every single time. The worst part? You can't even use !!response to coerce it properly!

That moment when your code inexplicably stops working despite changing absolutely nothing. You're just sitting there, exhausted, notebook in hand, trying to solve the cosmic mystery of why the exact same lines that ran perfectly yesterday now throw 17 different errors. The universe has decided your semicolons are suddenly offensive. Time to stare blankly at the screen for three hours before discovering a ghost space character that shouldn't mathematically affect anything, yet somehow fixes everything.