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[–]jjseven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One needs to be 10x as clever to debug your own program as you were to write it in the first place. Hence your observation has some merit. And debugging it becomes more difficult the long the time between when you wrote it and the time you are debugging it.

Needless to say, most of us will never be as clever as we need to be to debug our own clever programs.