SMRTR ProgrammingFeb 22, 2026Daily.dev

How Programmers Spend Their Time

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A developer shares their experience fixing a tiny use-after-free bug in Flash Attention that took only seconds to write but required over 10 hours to complete. The journey involved debugging crashes, wrestling with compute sanitizers, fighting build systems across multiple machines, dealing with CUDA version conflicts, and navigating through wrong code paths and copied files.

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