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As I was taking a tea break, I found I was looking forward to going back to work. Asked myself why. Because my program had a bug in it. Why would a bug make one more excited to work? Because it would probably be straightforward to catch, and satisfying to fix.
There are some bugs (usually involving hard to reproduce state) that are miserable to deal with. But except for those, debugging is one of the most satisfying parts of programming, because the problem is so constrained. It's like intellectual comfort food.
This is one reason you like programming more as you get more experienced. For beginners, debugging is mixed with fear. Oh no, my program doesn't work! When the fear recedes, debugging becomes not merely tolerable but pleasant.
I suppose debugging wouldn't be pleasant if I were more disciplined. "If I hadn't made these mistakes, I could be using my intellectual powers to the utmost, instead of wasting time fixing them," I should be saying (ideally in a German accent). But I'm not that disciplined.
what are you working on?
Up until it's your third time fixing a particular bug because you didn't fully understand all the different kinds of state the last two times :(
We’re not born to be developers. We’re born to be problem solvers and use code to express ourselves
problem is how timeconsuming it is. I think without noticing, if you actually measured it, in many cases people spend 90%+ of their time in the longterm on just fixing bugs in one form or another
Like a quest game.
It's meditative.
Find a job maintaining legacy code
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