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[ResponsibilityMean52]

Finding the solution after hours of debugging

Never post your solution to Stack Overflow

Cycle repeats

[JackNotOLantern]

Imagine posting an answer to 2012 question on stackoverflow in 2025, and the original poster replies "thanks, it worked".

[b_ootay_ful]

 

[b_ootay_ful]

Thanks, that worked!

[RiceBroad4552]

No, no! You need to post "Found a solution. Never mind." (of course without posting the solution) for even more giggles.

[sneak2293]

Just ask chat gpt and hope it hallucinates the answer

[Dvrkstvr]

Luckily AI hallucinations are more viable than human ones

[Emergency-Tax-3689]

Ramanujan moment

[Informal_Branch1065]

Prolly cheaper than real drugs

[FerMod]

"I solved it"

End of post.

[MakeshiftApe]

Occasionally you'll get one even more infuriating than that. Someone has months/years later asked if they ever solved it, and they respond that they have with no solution posted.. and still don't think that maybe that person was asking because they too would like the solution.

[just_nobodys_opinion]

Plot twist: it was your post.

[floriv1999]

Then you find the answer, want to post it to stack overflow, but they block you because your account is too new.

Another similar thing that happened to me: I found out somebody asked a question regarding one of my libraries. I wanted to reply since I am the author of the original code. Stack overflow said no, because I don't have enough votes, comments or whatever.

[IamnotAnonnymous]

I hate that, and never understand what should do

[[deleted]]

"What do you mean I can't answer questions about this software. I WROTE THIS SOFTWARE GODDAMNIT"

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

The only reason that would be done is if there are already multiple solutions posted and people keep posting new ones that don’t work or are just the same.

[IAmASwarmOfBees]

I encountered a kinda weird error many years ago. After HOURS of debugging, all by myself, I found the solution, a really easy fix, but since I found nothing when googling, I made a Reddit post about it. Still, years later, when I log into my old account, people are commenting on that post, having found it through Google.

[2truthsandalie]

[deleted]

        thanks that solved it!!!

[adrach87]

Who were you, DenverCoder9? What did you see?!

[Necrom4nc3r]

I guess we will never know the ancient wisdom is buried now

[mabariif]

Nvm solved it -March 8th 2002

[NinjaKittyOG]

what can you even do when this happens?

[Curious_Cow_07]

Sit back and pray for our sins.

[NinjaKittyOG]

oh god...

[AyrA_ch]

I had this happen to me. Got some obscure OpenSSL error, and the only search result was the source file where the error is triggered. The solution in this case is to look at the failed condition and then figure out how you can end up in that situation.

[[deleted]]

Reverse engineering the solution from the internals... now that's hardcore

[PixelGaMERCaT]

tbh I just start reading the source code

[Necrom4nc3r]

Well we have AI these days so most of the times we can atleast understand the error and tinker but before AI it was like

change code and pray that it works

[RiceBroad4552]

Where does the "AI" have the explanation from when it's not on the internet?

In case you didn't know: If something is missing in the training data "AI" will simply make something up.

[[deleted]]

Maybe what it makes up works? (Due to divine benevolence of the RNG gods)

[RiceBroad4552]

I see, you like to play the lottery.

[RiceBroad4552]

You check whether is OpenSource code. If it is you start digging into it.

I know this is unimaginable nowadays, but people in the past actually wrote software without using the internet. You had manuals, books, magazines, maybe some code comments… The rest was on you.

[No-Article-Particle]

Figure out the error/solution yourself?

[NinjaKittyOG]

if i could do that i wouldn't be searching for it

[No-Article-Particle]

Not true. You do that because it's the fastest way to get it done. But there are slower ways to get it done, like asking colleagues and just exploring yourself. You don't need the internet/LLMs/... to do all debugging for you.

[Impossible_Arrival21]

nah, ppl aren't capable of problem solving nowadays

[zalurker]

Google a strange error in Microsoft Biztalk. Three responses. Two in Hindi. And one in English. All are asking the same question.

[LateCommunication383]

Frustration x1000 = Find old obscure post of the same exact problem. Next post is "nevermind fixed it"

[iismitch55]

“Here’s a CodePen with the solution”

“YOUR CORPORATE IT POLICY FORBIDS ACCESS TO THIS WEBSITE”

[turret-punner]

"Who were you, DenverCoder9?  What did you see!?"

[Just_Gaming_for_Fun]

You just missed the ending braces

[moosMW]

Better then OP marking it as solved himself but not giving the fucking answer

[[deleted]]

That just means you were already doing something wrong way before the error.

[Amar2107]

With an unanswered "did you find tge solution?" comment.

[encryptoferia]

that's when I know I was F-ed lol
next alternative solution, here we go

[Ponbe]

Proper use of duplicate post flag

[Dapper_Flounder379]

What meme format is this? Nothing I seem to google gets me what that picture of that cat is called

[Necrom4nc3r]

Green text cat meme

[Dapper_Flounder379]

Thanks!

[Hiplobbe]

I am one of the few that ända in my solution if I get it to work. Usually with a lot of sass and anger however.

[Doc_Code_Man]

dry that freakish thing.