Which Debugging Style Are You?

A production bug just woke everyone up. Four questions decide what kind of debugger you are.

1. The error log says `undefined is not a function`. You first... Rubber-duck it out loud to whoever is nearby Comment out half the codebase and see if it still breaks Re-read the code line by line, slowly Deploy logging everywhere and wait for the next crash

2. Your favorite tool is... printf debugging, forever git bisect a debugger with breakpoints a nice big graph of the system

3. The bug only happens on Tuesdays. You feel... Delighted — that's a clue, not a curse Impatient — let's diff everything that runs on Tuesdays Suspicious — nothing is random, find the pattern Calm — chart it over weeks and the pattern will show itself

4. The fix works but you don't fully understand why. You... Explain it to a colleague until it makes sense Test the edge cases until you trust it Keep digging — 'it works' is not understanding Write a monitoring dashboard and watch it for a month