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Analytical puzzles. Debugging and trouble-shooting code is a significant portion of one's time writing & maintaining code - no one writes perfect code the first time, every time. If you can't quickly analyze the issue and fix it, then you spend a lot of time on wasted efforts and dead-ends.

This also applies to unit testing. Determining the minimum number of valid tests to test meaningfully different scenarios is as much art as science. Most developers know to test the happy path and the extremes (like testing for one-off errors when working with arrays). But there are many cases that might be less obvious for any specific scenario.
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