The Labyrinth
The Pudding Every software developer knows the feeling. It is 2:00 AM. The bug has been alive for six hours. The code compiles, the tests pass, and the feature still does not work. The error log says nothing useful. Stack Overflow has three answers, all from 2014, all wrong. The developer stares at the screen, and the screen stares back. Bug hunting is lonely, tedious, and demoralizing. It is the part of programming that no one romanticizes. Writing new features gets conference talks. Fixing bugs gets silence and eyestrain. ...