3 points | by nishilpatel 2 hours ago
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My biggest roadblocks come from my own certainty that I wrote correct code. That leads me to look in the wrong places for the bug. I have repeatedly looked right at bugs and not seen them because I felt sure that code works as expected.
This resonates. A lot of debugging time isn’t spent finding where the bug is, but unlearning the assumption that “this part is obviously correct.”
My biggest roadblocks come from my own certainty that I wrote correct code. That leads me to look in the wrong places for the bug. I have repeatedly looked right at bugs and not seen them because I felt sure that code works as expected.
This resonates. A lot of debugging time isn’t spent finding where the bug is, but unlearning the assumption that “this part is obviously correct.”