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Discussion on: What are the things that scare you as a Developer? 🎃

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Sasha Akhavi

Nothing's quite as scary as bugs that seem to have fixed themselves without any human intervention.
Except maybe the idea that I / we might do something with our tech that ends up hurting people. :(
Oh, and user tests are terrifying every. single. time.

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Calin Baenen

Nothing's quite as scary as bugs that seem to have fixed themselves without any human intervention.

Logs. This is why you always keep plenty of debug info handy.
It really pays off to record the conditions of the program in-case a bug occurs.

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Rammina

Yeah I make sure to keep printing the stack trace all of the time especially when I'm still in the development process.

Debugger is also great!

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Rammina

Ah, I have encountered this multiple times and it is definitely scary when the code you're writing is for other people.

I didn't mind it as much when I was just doing personal projects.