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Having the mindset that the mere existence of bugs constitutes a personal or professional failure is probably very unhealthy. Is this something developers experience? I've never felt bad about a bug before. I just go and fix it. No pain, just gain.

Breaking things and inconveniencing others are a much bigger drag for me. Those are the problems I stay late at work to solve.

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It's not that "that the mere existence of bugs constitutes a personal or professional failure".

Rather, in order to debug I have to go into negative mode. It's a mindset where I'm mentally combing over something, trying to illuminate everything that's wrong with it.

It's not even that important that it's your code. Focusing primarly on the good aspects of something is a healthier mental model - but not one that will get your code debugged.

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