Gina Acosta Gutiérrez’s Post

This statement is from 2018. In the age of GenAI this is outdated!

In my defence… I might misunderstood some parts of README… so a few hours of trial and error is ‘warranted’ so that , after some frustration and ‘I-give-up’, will I then be able to make full use of the 7 minutes to understand the README. #IAmGuilty 😬’’’ 🙏

good thing about trial & error: you sometimes learn more than reading the doc. Gina Acosta Gutiérrez

Why read when I can waste 3 hrs debugging

Happened to me way too often. But, then again there is nothing more fulfilling than figuring it out on your own 😅

I think you need context, that you can get by playing with it first, in order to understand the readme.

My elders taught me: "when everything else fails, read the, er, fine manual" ;)

A true software engineer up for a challenge doesn’t need the readme at first. So much to learn by making a fool of onself first.

Well, it takes a genius to really discern what to read and what to try out :)

Trail and error is the fun part of writing the code. Sometimes it is so cool the see in the logs what the code is doing va what you intend. Once fixed … it is such a rush.