> We don't just keep adding more words to our context window, because it would drive us mad.
That, and we also don't only focus on the textual description of a problem when we encounter a problem. We don't see the debugger output and go "how do I make this bad output go away?!?". Oh, I am getting an authentication error. Well, meaybe I should just delete the token check for that code path...problem solved?!
No. Problem very much not-solved. In fact, problem very much very bigger big problem now, and [Grug][1] find himself reaching for club again.
Software engineers are able to step back, think about the whole thing, and determine the root cause of a problem. I am getting an auth error...ok, what happens when the token is verified...oh, look, the problem is not the authentication at all...in fact there is no error! The test was simply bad and tried to call a higher privilege function as a lower privilege user. So, test needs to be fixed. And also, even though it isn't per-se an error, the response for that function should maybe differentiate between "401 because you didn't authenticate" and "401 because your privileges are too low".
[1]: https://grugbrain.dev
That, and we also don't only focus on the textual description of a problem when we encounter a problem. We don't see the debugger output and go "how do I make this bad output go away?!?". Oh, I am getting an authentication error. Well, meaybe I should just delete the token check for that code path...problem solved?!
No. Problem very much not-solved. In fact, problem very much very bigger big problem now, and [Grug][1] find himself reaching for club again.
Software engineers are able to step back, think about the whole thing, and determine the root cause of a problem. I am getting an auth error...ok, what happens when the token is verified...oh, look, the problem is not the authentication at all...in fact there is no error! The test was simply bad and tried to call a higher privilege function as a lower privilege user. So, test needs to be fixed. And also, even though it isn't per-se an error, the response for that function should maybe differentiate between "401 because you didn't authenticate" and "401 because your privileges are too low".
[1]: https://grugbrain.dev