When Your Brain Debugs At The Wrong Time

Oh look, we've come full circle! After spending billions on AI to replace programmers, someone's revolutionary idea is to... *checks notes*... ask humans for help? 🤯 The "vibe coder" discovers the ancient technology known as "asking the senior dev" - a technique that's only been working flawlessly since the dawn of programming. Next breakthrough: discovering that keyboards work better when plugged in. It's the tech equivalent of inventing the wheel, getting a flat tire, and then wondering if legs might be useful backup systems.

Content other people: error report on java is pretty detailed and well defined stack trace. me after got a wall of red messages: DISABLED?

The greatest superpower in debugging isn't some fancy tool or algorithm—it's simply being the one who wrote the buggy code in the first place. That knowing smirk on the senior dev's face says it all: "I created this monster, so naturally I know exactly where to find it." Nothing beats the efficiency of hunting down your own mistakes. The real skill is pretending you didn't write it that way on purpose just to look like a hero later.

The PHP installation process from the official website is basically a dark ritual requiring blood sacrifice and ancient incantations. Meanwhile, PPA Ondrej is the unsung hero who created a repository where you can just type apt-get install and get on with your life instead of deciphering cryptic documentation that seems deliberately written to make you question your career choices. The contrast between the official way and the "thank god someone fixed this" way perfectly captures the everyday pain of dev tooling that should be simple but never is.

Computers don't lie, but they sure know how to be dramatic about it. When your code finally works after 47 attempts and the computer's like "1" – that's binary for "I told you so." The machine's entire personality is just evaluating Boolean expressions and being insufferably correct while we're over here having existential crises over missing semicolons. The relationship between programmers and computers is basically us begging for validation and them responding with the computational equivalent of "k."

Content How I am with my computer: How I act when people ask me to fix theirs: VA SGAG.GUM.