You run to your computer only to realize you just hallucinated some solution like chatgpt

This happens so many times. I’m a pretty firm believer in walking away for 15 minutes is a crucial part of the debugging process. It’s just hard sometimes to know when to stop and stop trying shit for a bit.

Also rubber duck debugging, I’ll talk to my dog but fuck it works so many times. Shes helpful.

And then you fix the bug, test and it and it still doesn’t work and it turns out you weren’t even calling the function in the first place. I’ve had that happen several times.

writes ten lines of code.

has abug in line 255.

ah yes code very much

And when you’re wide awake you notice it was a dream, and there’s no “behave” statement in python.

If you know the line number, the bug is 99% solved

How are you sleeping after ten lines of co… oh it says coding

My zombie brain is my pair programmer. This happens to me so frequently that it no longer surprises me and I now chill and let my sub conscious work it out.

Remember to take care of yourself. Just because you have an idea doesn’t mean you have to test it right this second. You need breaks.

This is me almost every morning around 5am… 😭

This is why I leave a couple of hours break between coding and going to bed. If I don’t I may well sleep but my dreams are full of repeating code that I don’t wake up rested. Any “insights” from the dreams are usually wrong as well ☹️

Literally me 7 hours ago

this has happened to me after I spent weeks trying to fix a small thing it made me scream

As a programmer with ADHD… 100% yes.

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