The author of the text was experiencing issues with executing a N1QL query in their Couchbase application written in Go, despite knowing that the results existed. After troubleshooting and consulting with the Go SDK engineer, it was discovered that the issue was due to errors occurring after the query execution, which were not being caught or handled properly by the author's code. The errors were caused by a mismatch between the data type of the `Timestamp` property in the saved document and its expected type when read from Couchbase. The author's solution involved printing out error messages at different stages of their code to identify and correct the issue, highlighting the importance of handling errors thoroughly to avoid hours of frustration.