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by brazzy 1763 days ago
> That’s not debugging, that’s pattern-matching. That’s … eyeball racing.

Um...yes. And that is a very good thing. Because if there is anything the human brain is good at, it's pattern matching. Especially on visual data.

It's an extremely quick and efficient way to find out where to start the detailed debugging.

And there is a lot of value in that.

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the brain is also good at fooling itself