Spent 4 hours debugging a script that just needed a comma

I was working on this little automation project for organizing client files at my marketing job, and it kept throwing errors like crazy. I thought it was some deep logic issue with my loops, you know, the kind where you stare at the screen until your eyes go blurry. Turns out (after way too much coffee) I had missed a single comma in a configuration JSON file. Four hours just gone for one tiny punctuation mark. Has anyone else burned a whole afternoon on something that stupidly simple before?

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wesley_hart24d ago

Oh man, that hits way too close to home. I once spent a whole Friday chasing a bug that was just a missing semicolon in a config file, felt like the universe was personally messing with me.

holly_craig24d ago

Gotta be honest, that sounds like time well spent learning to look at JSON closely.