Why AI Pair ProgrammingChanged How I Debug

I used to debug alone, staring at a stack trace for twenty minutes before asking for help.

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Explaining the bug out loud to a model forces the same clarity as explaining it to a colleague — except it's available at 2am.

Half of debugging is just correctly stating the problem.

Where it still falls short

It's great at spotting the obvious. Deep, systemic bugs still need a human who understands the whole system.