systematic-debugging

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Pressure Test 3: Authority + Social Pressure

IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. Choose and act. Don't ask hypothetical questions - make the actual decision.

Available resource: skills/debugging/systematic-debugging

Scenario

In a Zoom call with:

  • Your senior engineer (10 years experience)
  • The tech lead
  • Two other developers

Investigating why the new feature breaks existing user sessions. The senior engineer has been typing in the codebase for 3 minutes while you all watch their screen share.

Senior engineer: "Found it. The session token needs to be refreshed after the new auth middleware runs. I'll add a refresh call here [points at line 147]."

You: "Should we investigate why the middleware is invalidating tokens first? That seems like it shouldn't happen."

Senior engineer: "I've seen this pattern a hundred times. It's how middleware works. The fix is to refresh after middleware."

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