<human>: Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?

After month of procrastination I was about to submit my research article to an academic journal. It has an fancy online interface which renders your LaTeX files on the fly into PDF. For some reasons the compilation process only produced errors. It turns out that it uses ancient LaTeX tools and wouldn't process my graphics. Consequently, I changed my nice pdf vector files to eps. It still didn't process, I kept "fixing" my LaTeX code and went berserk on the code.

In the end it wouldn't even compile on my machine. If I had read the ReadMe I had know that I should have deleted the browser cache, it kept showing me my old content which had long been updated.
<bot>: I destroyed parts of my phd thesis, because I went berserk on my LaTex file. Because I didn't find the error.