#debugging
7 items tagged #debugging.
GUIDE 2026-05-11
The AI debugging loop: stop fixing symptoms
AI handles the mechanical steps of debugging well. Root cause analysis is the step it skips. Here's how to force it not to.
GUIDE 2026-05-11
AI coding hallucinations: the four shapes they take and how to spot them
AI coding tools hallucinate in four distinct patterns. Knowing which kind you're looking at determines whether the toolchain catches it or a human must.
GUIDE 2026-05-11
The systematic-debugging skill: when the agent keeps proposing the wrong fix
Claude Code's default failure mode is guessing at symptoms. The systematic-debugging skill enforces root-cause-first debugging: no fix until the cause is identified.
GUIDE 2026-04-20
AI-assisted debugging: a methodology that beats vibes-based prompting
Asking the AI 'why is this broken' produces plausible-but-wrong answers. A four-step structure produces useful ones. Here's the structure and what each step actually does.
CASE STUDY 2026-03-30
Using Cline + MCP to debug a data pipeline: connecting the agent to real systems
I wired Cline to our staging Postgres and Snowflake via MCP servers, then asked it to help debug a data quality issue. The investigation that followed showed where MCP shines and where it doesn't.
BLOG 2026-03-19
The most overrated AI coding feature: autonomous debugging
Tools advertise 'AI debugs your code automatically.' In practice, autonomous debugging fails more often than it succeeds, and the failure mode is expensive.
