I spent 8 hours debugging a text summarizer that was just copying the first sentence every time

I was building a simple AI tool to summarize customer reviews for my small shop. I thought I had the model set up right, ran it on a batch of 50 reviews. It took me 8 hours across 2 days to figure out it was just spitting back the first sentence of each review. I traced it through the API calls, checked the training data, and finally found I had forgotten to remove a single line of code from an old example script. Has anyone else sunk a full work day into a mistake that was basically one line wrong?

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milar4621d ago

Is it just me or does this kind of thing happen WAY more than it should? I swear, I spend half my time fixing tiny little mistakes that SHOULD be obvious but my brain just skips right over them. Like putting a key back in the wrong drawer and then tearing the house apart for an hour before realizing it was literally RIGHT THERE the whole time. It's like our brains are wired to see what we EXPECT to see, not what's ACTUALLY there, and that's what makes these one-line bugs so brutal to catch.

the_eva21d ago

Oh wow thanks brain so helpful. 🙄