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The experience that made me hate programming, but that's all on me (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev
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Title before edit: I hate programming, why did i choose this field

TL;DR: Stupid mistake, made by hours waste.

Basically, I was extracting date from the SQL db, and it was not displaying. I tried everything, heck I even went to chatgpt, and copilot. Two and half hours of trying every single thing under the sun, you know what was the issue?

SELECT task, status, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

I FUCKING FORGOT TO ADD 'date' TO THE DAMN QUERY. TWO AND HALF HOURS. I was like, "Ain't no way." as I scrolled up to the query and there it was, a slap in the face, and you know what was the fix?

SELECT task, status, date, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

Moral of the story, don't become a programmer, become a professional cat herder instead.

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[โ€“] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This kind of stuff happens all the time IMO, we're human and not perfect ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I don't know how much of a help ChatGPT would be in this situation without access to your schema, at least with Copilot you can write a comment in the code explaining what you're trying to do and get some usable pointers in the generated suggestion (which takes your codebase into account).

I usually try to get a second pair of eyes on my code if something that seems relatively simple isn't working as expected... As you gain more experience these mistakes will become less common, and easier to spot

[โ€“] MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My second pair of eyes was in an another country for business stuff so I had to solve it all by myself and because of the frustration, i wrote this post. Sorry about that

[โ€“] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's when rubber duck debugging comes in handy.