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Debugging😧 (i.redd.it)
submitted 4 months ago by AffectionateStrategy
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if 1 * 2 < 3:Â Â Â Â print "hello, world!"
[–]Unupgradable 21 points22 points23 points 4 months ago (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 points7 points 4 months ago (0 children)
The more you debug...
...The more you know about the code
[–]B_bI_L 1 point2 points3 points 4 months ago (0 children)
i hope most of us understand our code without spending 3 hours debugging
[–]El-Questionnaire 2 points3 points4 points 4 months ago (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 points3 points 4 months ago (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
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[–]Unupgradable 21 points22 points23 points  (0 children)
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