yeah, i just sketched out some code ideas on paper over a few days, checked and rechecked them to make sure they were right, and then after i wrote the code on the computer tonight, it was full of bugs that i took hours and hours to figure out anyway. debugging output, stepping through in the debugger, randomly banging on shit to see what would happen because i was out of ideas. i would have asked coworkers but i'm fresh out of those at the moment

i am not smart enough this week to debug a raytracer on paper before typing it in, if i ever was

things like hypothesis can make a computer very powerful for checking out ideas