Comment by enriquto

> if we don’t feel stupid it means we’re not really trying

Sounds a bit like Kernighan's lever: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. Yet." [0]

[0] https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/in...