Reflections On Debugging With Mulan
Last night, I spent ~4-5 hours trying to debug this nasty bug with Mulan. We weren’t able to figure out exactly why the issue is happening, but I had some interesting takeaways after the fact.
- Mulan and I work really well as a team, if we make sure that both of us are in the right mindset. If we’re both on the same page, then it’s game over.
- Mulan is very insightful, and often points out things during debugging that other people miss. Some of her weaknesses include implementation keeping track of things in her head. Some reasons why these could happen (from mulan herself):
- shorter attention span
- doesn’t feel as clear about solutions
- doesn’t enjoy as much as me
- Mindset matters a lot.
- Having your work setup be shitty affects your rate of iteration so much. Mulan’s setup with her laptop is soooo slow, but I don’t think she even realized how much she was missing out on by not having a faster laptop. I guess this is in favor of investing the time to find a setup that works really well for you. There’s quite a lot of investment cost, but you definitely make up for it by just being 20-30% faster than other people at basic ass things. Although there’s a limit to how much the incremental improvement actually helps; at some point, you need to just make sure you’re prioritizing more important things 202210031316
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