It's not shameful. It's the road we're on. I once spent, seriously, almost two hours trying to debug an “impossible” bug caused by fat-fingering ) with } in a place perl couldn't accurately tell me what was going on. The problem was obvious but I was sure it was something else so I kept debugging and swapping lines and messing around with print statements and applying the keyboard to my forehead… We’ve all got at least one of those.