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My coworker swore by chatGPT for debugging and I wasted 2 hours
My buddy Dave at the office kept telling me to just paste my error logs into ChatGPT to find bugs fast. I tried it last week with a Python script that kept crashing on line 47, and it gave me a fix that looked good but broke everything else. Turns out the AI missed a subtle variable scope issue that took me another hour to spot manually. Anyone else find these tools hit or miss for actual code troubleshooting?
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king.dakota19d ago
Telling it to show its work step by step helped me catch the wrong stuff faster.
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robinmason4d ago
Three hours? Man, @grace926 you have way more patience than me. I would've rage-quit after the first hour and blamed the AI for my entire weekend being shot.
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grace92619d ago
...and then it told me to "ensure dependencies are properly declared" which is about as useful as "have you tried turning it off and on again." I once asked it to help me refactor a function and it dropped a whole block of code that looked right but had the variable names all swapped around. Spent the next three hours chasing my own tail because I trusted it. It's like asking a really confident intern who watched a few coding tutorials.
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