I don't know if I'm "good", i.e. efficient at debugging. I'm just incredibly persistent. If that means stepping through 20 layers of framework code... so be it.

I don't know if I'm "good", i.e. efficient at debugging. I'm just incredibly persistent. If that means stepping through 20 layers of framework code... so be it. I've found weird undocumented edge cases that way. That said, you mention not getting your code to compile. I've never (at least not in recent memory) not been able to get my code to compile by myself after a while, but I also don't know what language you're working with. Are you struggling with the type system? That can usually be tackled by taking expressions apart, assigning them explicit types and then reasoning through the inputs and outputs (with pen and paper if need be).