Beginners and experts (Batchelder blog post)

[Larry Martell]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 5:08 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yep. Pick anyone on this list that you believe is an expert, and ask
> him/her for a story of a long debug session that ended up finding a
> tiny problem. I can pretty much guarantee that every expert programmer
> will have multiple such experiences, and it's just a matter of
> remembering one with enough detail to share the story.

The software development process can be summed up thusly:

I can’t fix this
Crisis of confidence
Questions career
Questions life
Oh it was a typo, cool