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This explains, when you look in your git repository for who created a bug...

When you find it and it's by someone else, it was obviously a stupid, idiotic error that you would never make.

When you find it and it's your own, it was obviously an understandable mistake that anybody could have made.

Particularly if you consider yourself a great coder.

:)



You're more likely to go back and notice the stupid broken code you wrote, because it disproportionately comes back to bite you later. The good code just works, so you don't notice it as much. Classic selection bias.


I've located incredibly stupid bugs that I wrote enough times to know that I am not a great coder.




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