You'll spend a whole evening chasing a bug that turns out to be a single misplaced character, and feel real rage at a machine that does exactly what you told it.

Then the thing runs, your dumb little tool or game actually works, and it's pure magic that you built it from nothing but logic.

The loop is addictive and humbling in equal measure: tiny wins, constant errors, and the strange joy of making a computer do your bidding.