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My bug fixes almost always start out with “why the F did I do that?????” And then a long series of “oh…” before I finally get to the “ah hah!” Which is a moment I still enjoy after all these years. But fixing someone else’s code I’m more like “ok…I need to find the bread crumbs so I don’t get lost in this forest and end up messing something up…let me test this seemingly simple…ok yeah that broke stuff better roll it back.”



Lucky you if you manage to break stuff in a way that's immediately observable!


Oh Im sure I’ve broke things that just haven’t been observed yet!


Very true. I have many stories where a bug got “fixed” only to find out that there were unexpected consequences later on.




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