this one somewhat misses this experience tbh imo it’s the element of pacing one’s work that’s missing; pre-AI you’d often be forced by these bugs to step away and touch grass, now it takes consciously pulling yourself away not wholly a bad thing, but can be very easy to get caught in AI mania
Before AI, there would be times where I would be stumped by a bug so much I would just have to step away and look at it again with fresh eyes hours or days later. Basically all SWEs had moments like this. But it's just not something I experience anymore at all