[peterkos]

I remember reading an article that studied junior and senior devs and discovered that there was no way to get better at debugging. No matter how much experience someone had, their ability to problem solve was about the same.

I think that might have to do with this complexity, but also: software has so many ways of doing something, even within the same language -- and that gets permuted across, say, five different languages (Python, Rust, PhP...). It's impossible to say the "right" way to do it because there are multiple ways to achieve a valid result that's readable, AND there is a margin for disagreement between what is "readable".

[Arelius]

I feel this needs better context, because besides not being able to prove a negative, debugging is so much beyond only the essential ability to "problem solve". And as an anecdote, I've certainly gotten significantly better at debugging with my experience among many aspects. For instance the ability to recognize a somewhat common bug based on it's symptoms is something that at least within a certain context, improves with experience and is at least to some degree "getting better at debugging"

[travisjungroth]

I’d love a link to that article if you can find it. I wasn’t able to on my own.

I was just thinking today about how to teach someone to be better at debugging.