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by danielbln 502 days ago
"This broke. Here is the error behavior, here are diagnostics, here is the code. Help me dig in and figure this out."
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I'm sure it can diagnose common, easily searchable well documented issues. I've tried LLMs for debugging and it only led me on a wild goose chase ~40% of the time.

But if you expect it to debug code written by another black box you might as well use it to decompile software

Sometimes the error message is a red herring and the problem lies elsewhere. It's a good way to test imposters that think prompting an LLM makes you a programmer. They secretly paste the error into chatGPT and go off in the wrong direction...