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The Joy of Old-School Coding After a Stupid Mistake

04 Jul 2026 #coding

Yesterday, it happened again.

I had an error message that made me scratch my head.<br>For a moment, I thought, “God, why am I doing this? I should start a garden or something.”

I copy-pasted the error message into Google.<br>StackOverflow didn’t help that much.<br>I was tempted to go to Copilot.<br>But I held my horses.

A few moments later, “Oooohh, here it is!”<br>A one-line code change fixed it.<br>Stupid Entity Framework Core!

I was in a rush a few days before and I missed a small detail:<br>I used a collection to map a one-to-one relationship.<br>Simple! I know. Only integration tests caught it.

For a moment, an error message made me want to quit.<br>A second later, I was back in the game.<br>Yet again. For the nth time.

I guess AI doesn’t give you that feeling—or does it?

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