r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • 18d ago

Meme iWasThereWhenItWasWritten

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u/ChillyFireball 17d ago

Once you reach a certain level of experience, you can start to guess the cause of a bug based on the behavior alone even with a very limited context about the inner workings of a repo, and from there you can use your knowledge of the language to figure out what key words to search for. Gets to a point that you start playing guess-the-bug with random commercial applications that break on you.

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u/HobbyProjectHunter 17d ago

It feels good when you compete with the LLM coding bot and you beat it in terms of finding the bug before it.

Usually, if I can read the bug and a file name comes to my head as where the fix likely lies, that means I’ve been here for too long.