I spent 5 hours fixing one issue

Do you ever get so fixated on fixing something that everything else gets pushed to the side?

This happened to me on Tuesday. I stayed up til 3am trying to fix one bug. I worked with ChatGPT to debug the situation and the AI told me that what I was trying to do wasn’t possible. I dismissed it, of course, because it’s just an AI after all – what does it really know!? I turned to Google, sifting through forums…

“How could no one have run into this problem before!?”

But ChatGPT was right. It wasn’t possible. And together we had to rethink a whole new solution to the problem. Then after we worked through the new solution and got to a successful result, I was completely underwhelmed by the end result. It was just done. Nothing marvelous. Just 5 hours of my life that I’ll never get back.

So what did I learn…? Trust the AI? I’m still not sure 😔 I thought writing this note would help me figure it out. But I’m just left more befuddled than I was before.