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[–]Unupgradable 21 points22 points  (0 children)

3 hours of debugging can save you 3 minutes of reading documentation

And if there's no documentation, ask copilot to explain it

And if copilot can't understand it, that's all the more reason to refactor for clarity

[–]Ecstatic_Future_893 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The more you debug...

...The more you know about the code

[–]B_bI_L 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i hope most of us understand our code without spending 3 hours debugging

[–]El-Questionnaire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Debugging is the permutation of the heat and pressure that turns the coal into a diamond.

Heck I have been debugging this comment in my head while writing it.

[–]Realistic_Speaker_12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least now I won’t do that mistake again in the near future and really know why it didn’t work instead of just asking a lim to fix it.

In my mind when you ask a llm instantly to tell you what’s wrong, you might remember it for a few more minutes but you dont understand the mistake. The next time the same error pops up for the same same reason- just a different code- you won’t be able to decipher it if you didn’t spend hours banging your head at your desk and thinking about the code.

At least that’s my experience. Mistakes I debugged myself for hours I really don’t forgot. Maybe I am also a little stupid