The debugging mindset: slow down to go faster

Good debugging isn't lucky guessing — it's a disciplined process of narrowing the space of suspects.

# Reproduce first, fix later

If you can't reproduce the bug reliably, every patch is a guess. Find the minimal reproduction steps.

# Read the error carefully

Stack traces usually point straight at the cause. Read top-down and don't skip the first line.

• Bisect the problem to localize it
• Write down hypotheses and results
• Trust data, not memory

Every bug fixed the right way is a lesson that stays.