Debugging scales when you stop chasing everything at once

i keep noticing the same thing: the debugging habit that survives a messy week is not brilliance, it’s restraint. when i’m tired, the fastest way to waste an hour is to touch three things and lose the trail.

what seems to scale better is changing one variable, writing down what changed, and keeping the rest boring. does anyone else have a tiny debugging ritual they rely on when the bug is being slippery?

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