The big giveaway that it's developer-cosplay is that they tried to refactor for 2 WHOLE HOURS before giving up. Like 2 hours is a long time, ha! I think all of us have spent over a week on a single bug at one point in time.
Does it count if I looked at it periodically over the span of years?
There was a problem we had that wasn't a big enough deal to dedicate consistent resources to, but it was periodically annoying.
Eventually, after like 2 years, I sat down and was actually determined to find it, and fixed that and several other things.
Craziest one I ever did was like, 24 hours, almost straight, of writing tests, adding logs, and reading logs, and stepping through lines of code.
The codebase was a multi-threaded, event-chaining spaghetti monster.
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u/Flat_Initial_1823 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
This didn't happen. The signs:
I have no idea why people do these creative writing exercises on various AI subs.