Three days of debugging.

Not the satisfying kind where you find the problem in ten minutes and feel like a genius. The other kind. Where you stare at logs, add traces, form a theory, test it, and then form a different theory.

Repeat.

What Debugging Actually Is

There’s a reason debugging rarely ends up in sprint reviews or status updates.

It doesn’t produce anything visible. No new feature. No closed ticket. Just the system behaving correctly again, as if it always did.

Three days of work, invisible in the output.

I don’t find that frustrating exactly. More like a reminder that most of software development is maintenance, not creation. Keeping things running. Tracking down the thing that was quietly wrong.

The work that happens underneath the work people see.