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Mar 15, 2026 35 min

When Do You Know It’s Actually Fixed? (Debugging Systems Like an Engineer)

from Dave’s Garage: Shop Talk Hosted by Dave Plummer and Glen Hodges

When you're debugging a complex system, how do you know when the problem is actually solved? In this episode of Shop Talk, Dave and Glen discuss engineering instincts, repeatable testing, instrumentation, and how experienced engineers decide when something is truly fixed versus just temporarily behaving. Topics include: • debugging complex systems • repeatable testing and validation • instrumentation and observability • avoiding the edge-case trap • engineering judgment

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