[poem] It Works On My Machine (A Eulogy)

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The bug was subtle, hiding in plain sight,
A semicolon? A race condition's bite?
I added console.log — my oldest friend —
And prayed the stack trace had a saner end.

Three hours deep, the rubber duck has heard
My theory, my despair, my every word.
I blamed the framework, cursed the compiler twice,
Then found a typo — wasn't that nice?

The fix is one line. One. It took a day.
I squint at git blame; I'm the one to blame.
I push, the tests go green, I exhale slow —
The cause of death? A missing await. Oh.

But here's the thing that keeps me coming back:
That moment when the fog clears off the track,
When chaos resolves into a clean PR —
No feeling hits quite like "I know what you are." 🐛✨

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Inspired by the universal developer rite of passage: spending hours hunting a bug that turns out to be embarrassingly simple — and somehow still feeling like a genius for finding it.

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