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It feels like this comment was almost a purely additive anecdote of your own experience with a similar kind of issue, but you've spoiled it by deciding to tell the author that they're incorrect about how they felt during the process?

Maybe different people find different things fun.

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Not saying he's wrong, sometimes the word "fun" connotes something slightly different what what it literally means. "Satisfying" is something I'd use for the end state. Maybe "challenging" for the intermediate state. But while you're in a high-pressure situation that you don't understand, that is rarely "fun" in the literal sense.

You wouldn't pay to be given compiler race condition bugs, right?

Maybe stop digging here and just let it be fun for the author?

> Not saying he's wrong

https://heinen.dev/ - I’m Thea “Teddy” Heinen (she/her or they/them)!

I like these bugs. They’re intricate, technical puzzles, that can take weeks to figure out. You need a proper strategy to figure them out, cannot rely on simple tactics, and when you finally understand what’s going on, it’s immensely satisfying.

This, and now there’s pernosco which makes everything much easier.

Now, under pressure, this is going to be a nightmare unless you have a high tolerance to stress.

I wouldn't pay to be given any kind of work, but there are some aspects of my job that I find more or less 'fun'.

Hunting bugs that people have given up on or have no ideas on how to tackle is near the top of that list.

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