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Before you ping a peer, senior, or open a thread asking for help, put a reasonable amount of effort in first to solve the problem.
Not asking you to bang your head against something, but make a reasonable attempt - read the error message fully, check the docs, search the codebase, try one or two hypotheses, or better - ask Claude (at least).
This matters more than it sounds.
When you come to someone having already done that groundwork, the conversation is completely different. You are not asking them to do the thinking for you. You are asking them to help you get unstuck. That is a much more productive use of everyone's time, including yours.
It also builds something that will help you throughout your life (not just your career) - the muscle of debugging independently. Tbh, this is something I feel was, is, and will always be super crucial. Each time you try to solve it on your own before escalating, you get a little better at it. Over time, you stop needing to 'escalate' as often.
Again, there is no shame in asking for help. Asking is good. But the quality of the ask matters. "I tried X, then Y, I think the issue is Z, but I am not sure" is a completely different conversation than "it is broken, can you look?"
Hope this helps.
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