Preface: I work with C/C++ the majority of my time. C#, F#, and PowerShell are the bulk of my remaining professional time. Go & OCaml/F# at home. When I starte

Preface: I work with C/C++ the majority of my time. C#, F#, and PowerShell are the bulk of my remaining professional time. Go & OCaml/F# at home. When I started, the bulk of my time was debugging my own code. I am gifted with the ability to write vast swathes of code in a short amount of time and when I was younger, it was vast swathes of shit code. A little later into my career years 3.5-5, I spent more time coding and less time debugging. I designed my code better, used better patterns, and generally was just an all around better engineer. I've come into the third stage of my career now where I spend a good portion of my time debugging junior engineers' code in a complex system I work on. In particular, my focus is usually in reliability and performance. I don't tend to debug the junior engineer one-off issues but rather the subtle regressions introduced by seemingly harmless changes. In this third stage, I still write a lot of code, but much more of it is investigative and refinement over existing ideas with occasional injection of something wholly new.