The Self-Inflicted Code Review

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Content HOW TO DEBUG YOUR CODE Start Is there a bug? Yes You're lying. Do you know the problem? No Try something random. Yes 7 Fix it. Did it work? Yes Did it create more bugs? Try and break something. No. Are you tired of debugging? No Yes Yes Your code is still buggy.

The eternal standoff between code quality and functionality. The naval officer (senior dev/code reviewer) is horrified by your spaghetti code abomination, but Captain Jack Sparrow (you, the pragmatic dev) has the ultimate comeback: it might be ugly, it might violate every best practice in the book, it might make grown engineers weep... but it does run . Nothing captures the essence of production code quite like this. That monstrosity held together with duct tape and prayers that nobody dares refactor because the last three devs who tried mysteriously disappeared. The code might be an unholy mess, but shipping working garbage beats perfect vaporware every time.

HONEY, THE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME IS REAL! That's a black lab swimming with ducks who have NO IDEA they've been infiltrated by a completely different species! Just like when you've been copy-pasting ChatGPT code for a week straight and somehow convinced the entire engineering team you're a coding genius! The whole dev team is like "Great job on that algorithm!" while you're frantically Googling what a for-loop is. Swimming in a sea of competent developers while your brain is screaming "QUACK QUACK I'M TOTALLY A PROGRAMMER" is the most relatable thing ever. We're all just dogs in a duck pond pretending we know what we're doing!

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