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"coupled with a kind of fog that comes with reasoning about your programs" - could you elaborate on this at all? I've noticed patterns changing in my coding. I
by LifeQuestioner 11y ago
"coupled with a kind of fog that comes with reasoning about your programs" - could you elaborate on this at all?
I've noticed patterns changing in my coding. I can't believe it's only just properly dawned on it's burnout related.
Thankyou for your valuable input =)
- burnout_tmp 11y agoBasically, you're overworked so you're not as focused. One little example I can remember was this - we were maintaining a less than impressive codebase under a lot of time pressure (bad management practices, such is life). There was a bug caused by me using two functions together that looked like a pair, but in fact the function to transform data was not idempotent, and the function to undo that transformation would sometimes mangle the data. I should have tested the code involved instead of just using it naively, but I wasn't in the mental state of mind to watch for such things. Little things like that. Programming takes a lot of mental discipline, so you need to be at your best.
- LifeQuestioner 11y agoThis well explains why my code has been so above and beyond buggy the last few months I almost spend more time fixing bugs than actually coding! Thank you =)