What do you do when you get an error you just cant seem to fix?

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What do you do when you get an error you just can’t fix yourself?

  • Ask for help
  • Ask AI for help
  • Take a break and do it later
  • Give up. Nobody is going to see this REPL
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Interesting rounding bias…

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Put your answers in again. I had to change the poll.

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well i just bash my head and keep trying tbh its a rare quality that i have.

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My steps to solve/fix a programming problem:

  1. Ask AI
  2. Check Google
  3. Go on Replit Ask
  4. Chuck my computer out the window
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id put that after stackoverflow because ai doesn’t help at all it gives me gibberish.

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Usually I’m like:
“You have an error? Then don’t ask for help and completely abandon the project!”
But sometimes I’m like:
“You have an error? Check for spelling mistakes, ask other members in the team for help, ask AI for help and waste 50% of your AI for the week, then find a spelling error and fix it, then find another error and abandon the REPL.”

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Use something like ChatGPT, afaik its unlimitedly free

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How I handle it:

  1. Tell Ghostwriter to help me right this instant
  2. Hit my keyboard
  3. Ask Ask for Help (ewwww that sounded weird)
  4. Shut down my computer
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How is searching the internet not on your poll? I follow this order:

  1. Tinker around
  2. Google it
  3. Ask 9pfs (user on Replit/Ask/AMC)
  4. Make a help topic about it
  5. Give up
  6. After some time, repeat this cycle and maybe succeed
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No use Phind :upside_down_face:

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Most of the time I look on Stack Overflow, all the answers are outdated or unclear imo

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Very, very Accurate

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skill issueWell… what issues are you stuck on? Some might not apply to SO, others fitting to AI, or forum, etc

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If I really can’t seem to get it, I revert it to at least “operational” order and step away… Many times to never return. Sometimes, though, I come back and mess with it further and get it. Those instances are quite thrilling lol

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:thinking: Lol, the problem is in the word “revert”; I was using emacs via X11 one time (ikr sometimes laggy bc of sleeping computers) and then accidentally did some keyboard shortcut to delete 70% of my code. I saved it, closed emacs, then came back to a big gap in my code.

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After a year or so, I came back and redid it (like 200 lines or smth) and its now at replit.com/@python660/minesweeperpy

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I should have added “Take a break and do it never” because that’s me. I usually take a break and say I’ll do it later, but then I do it never.

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me with every project in a nutshell
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That is so relatable.