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I alternate between "I am the best programmer to ever exist" and "I am completely incompetent at this and I should quit" while debugging.

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I've been known to inform people that the person that wrote the incredibly horrendous code that caused whatever problems to occur should be fired immediately knowing good and well that I was the only dev to write any of the code.

me, yesterday: What absolute piece of shit asshole wrote this shell script? my wife: Was it you? me: Well obviously

> my wife: Was it you? me: Well obviously

"Research shows" (I read long ago) that the happiest men are those take their wives' advice — that's certainly been true for my own N=1, for coming up on four decades now. I'd imagine we could replace "wives" with "spouses" and get comparable results.

> I'd imagine we could replace "wives" with "spouses" and get comparable results.

Haven’t you just risked an infinite loop in your code?

Hah! I was referring to some men having husbands these days, but I take your point!

I prefer "Why did I need to see this subtlest detail to resolve the bug, modern software sucks" and "Why do we not have better tools that would have prevented me from writing this bug in the first place, modern software sucks".

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If you are honest, it may not even alternate. Both feelings can exist at the same time.

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