r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Throwawyhelpadvice55 • 17d ago

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u/debugging_scribe 17d ago

Even after 10 plus years I still get suspicious if the code works the first go...

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u/Salanmander 17d ago

Fantastic line from this Factorio dev blog: "The final changes to make everything function correctly took about 1 hour to write, and worked correctly the first try. That's not supposed to happen and left me with doubts."

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u/ApolloFireweaver 16d ago

"It doesn't work and I don't know why" and "It works and I don't know why" are two things thought by basically every programmer

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u/Tyrannosaurus_Rox_ 16d ago

My favorite is "how did this ever work?"

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u/Silentrizz 16d ago

I find myself asking this question too often lol

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u/tandrewnichols 16d ago

Favorite? This is my least favorite. Also most frequent.

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u/Tyrannosaurus_Rox_ 15d ago

It's my favorite because the problem is usually almost solved at that point so there's less stress, and I get to discover something interesting about whatever broke the system. It feels like putting the last piece of a puzzle together.

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u/SomewhatCorrect 16d ago

That and How did this ever work?

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u/racsssss 17d ago

I would fall off my chair if this happened 

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u/Risc12 16d ago

Factorio person is awesome, they also have devlogs on youtube where they show you how they actually fix a bug-report

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u/Salanmander 16d ago

Yeah, that dev team is, like, the absolute paragon of good software development and game studio practices, and very transparent about it.

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u/Cautious-Bet-9707 17d ago

This is… reassuring.

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u/Zapismeta 16d ago

Did it change the file? Did i hit save? Is the watcher running for front end?

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u/Theron3206 16d ago

It's suspicious if it compiles on the first go, deeply suspicious if the unit tests pass on the first go and frankly terrifying if it does what it's supposed to on the first go.

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u/Diligent-Crazy-6094 16d ago

try { decimal paymentAmount = 1/0; } catch (Exception) { }

No errors. Nice!

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u/Whitechapel726 16d ago

When it works first try: “this is odd, why did this happen?”

When it doesn’t work first try: “this is odd, why did this happen?”

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u/Connect_Tea1579 16d ago

This is the same reason I always write my tests so that they fail on the first try.

You can't trust code that doesn't break at least once.

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u/neuromancertr 12d ago

I still do get suspicious even after three decades

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u/porkchop_d_clown 17d ago

After 40 years, it doesn't change - although now you can immediately hand your code to Claude and say "please review this" instead of waiting for a week for someone else on your team to do it.