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How do you debug effectively with AI?

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AI is a good debugging partner when it gets facts: the exact error text, the stack trace, the reproduction steps and the relevant code. Without facts it guesses and offers a "shotgun fix": five changes at once, one of which might help while the rest introduce new problems.

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