Hanno ZullaThe cool thing about writing code is that the computer is doing exactly what you tell it to do.
The cool thing about debugging code is slowly learning what you actually told the computer to do.
Thomas Sturm
Klaus SteinWhile debugging is the process of removing errors from a program, programming is the task of integrating errors into the program.
c0m4
Voracious ReaderThe "VIBE" in "vibe coding" stands for "Visual Integrated Bugging Environment "
Ελλεν Εμιλία Ά.ζ.@hzulla Debugging is the process of understanding the consequences of what you actually told the computer to do.
waso nytpu@hzulla Easy fix, just know what you're writing ahead of time instead /s
Gwen, the Fops 
@hzulla the cool thing about writing a debugger is learning all the sleight of hand that you computer uses to make it possible to execute what you told it to
Cassandrich@hzulla The cool* thing about vibe coding is that the computer is doing a random amalgamation of what all the worst people on the internet told their computers to do.
*not cool
Robbert
Queen Calyo Delphi@hzulla Both of these things are why I enjoy coding at an amateur level, but also could never ever code at a professional level.
clew
Lyrial
argonaut
Oriel Jutty 
ran mak@hzulla in this metaphor of coding as communication, sometimes there are cultural misunderstandings that can only be attributed to inefficiencies in language https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs
Derrial Book@hzulla
The great thing about writing code is that computers do exactly what we tell them to do.
The awful thing about writing code is that computers do exactly what we tell them to do.
In reality, we want computers to do exactly what we _want_ them to do.
Debugging is learning the difference between 'wanting' and 'telling'.
The great thing about writing code is that computers do exactly what we tell them to do.
The awful thing about writing code is that computers do exactly what we tell them to do.
In reality, we want computers to do exactly what we _want_ them to do.
Debugging is learning the difference between 'wanting' and 'telling'.
chris
Jez Nicholson@hzulla the cool thing about vibe coding is how quickly the computer is doing something that looks like what you might tell it to do if you understood the problem.
the cool thing about having to debug someone else's vibe coding is.....is....is.....ummm
stephen ryner jr. 🦉@hzulla @designatednerd in practice “cool” for vanishingly small values of coolness
leobard
JustSaying@hzulla Garage in garage out (on purpose)
Bobbi Towers@hzulla I've been feeling lately that "debugging" fails to adequately describe what I do to my programs, because it seems to imply that your program mostly works
Kluthulhu' XOR 1=1--@hzulla Computers are pedantic idiots 😁
Shadow in a Hoodie@hzulla This is so true!
ericjames* (they/it) 
@hzulla and that's why i wouldn't have the patience to learn how to code lol
Alexander The 1st@hzulla And the cool thing about QA is learning how you can change what the computer was told to do.
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@hzulla Well, it used to be like that, back in the days when you wrote every byte of code in the computer and you could watch every bus cycle with a logic analyser to see what it did.
These days most "programming" is trying to guess what the poorly written documentation for a library or API actually means, and debugging is finding out what in fact it really means. In this patch version, anyway: nobody can predict what your same code will do next week.
The Grue
uweb
Stefan Baur 7 * 💉
Deane Barker@hzulla Oftentimes, I'll have a bug that just makes no sense, until I realize I set the exact opposite condition that I meant to in a boolean evaluation. I am literally checking for the opposite of what I wanted, and doing that seems so dumb that it's too obvious to look for as a possible source for the bug.
gigantos