Debugging

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A JVM engineer at Twitter with 20 years of systems experience explains debugging across layers of complex software, combining practical debugger features with cognitive techniques: gather data, hypothesis-test, then deliberately stop and let the subconscious recombine clues. Anecdote about Seymour Cray digging tunnels illustrates switching from active analysis to background incubation; frequent outcomes include sudden insights after sleep or shower, and concrete wins when a misattributed bug moves from framework to native layer.

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1. 0:00Debugging session
2. 1:05Debugging complex stacks
3. 2:12Human problem-solving
4. 3:58Seymour Cray’s tunnel-digging
5. 6:50Unconscious problem-solving
6. 8:17Trusting subconscious debugging
7. 9:24Neuroscience of debugging
8. 9:45Unboxed Hawaii 2020 highlights

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