I quite like fixing bugs. It's a different mental challenge to truly understand what is going wrong, often something that's really subtle. While individual fix

I quite like fixing bugs. It's a different mental challenge to truly understand what is going wrong, often something that's really subtle. While individual fixes are often unnoticed, the overall effect is profound. Users are happier, support staff are more confident, and programmers are able to build the next layer on a firm foundation. I agree bug fixing my code is more enjoyable to bug fixing other people's code, and I agree that most programmers resist the former and hate the latter. But for me, bug-fixing foreign code, is one of the truest tests of skill.