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confessional debugging

noun

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  1. The debugging technique wherein a programmer explains a problem to someone else, and in…

    The debugging technique wherein a programmer explains a problem to someone else, and in the process realizes the source of it.

    • Talk to someone else about the problem. Some people call this “confessional debugging.” You often discover your own error in the act of explaining it to another person.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for confessional debugging. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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