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by lpapez 1713 days ago
Same thing here. With LeetCode or AdventOfCode problems its usually simple "write test submit celebrate". With real world problems its usually like: try to reproduce a vague customer crash/fail report, have several meetings on how to handle the new unexpected scenario, rewrite a portion of the code to support this use-case, tweak everything until unit tests pass, send it to QA for detailed testing, maybe repeat...