Questions tagged [debugging]
Post a PromptPrompts that help diagnose and fix bugs.
4 prompts
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Hypothesis-driven debugging prompt that stops the model guess-fixing
Classic failure mode: I paste a bug and the model immediately rewrites five things, half unrelated, and says "this should fix it." No hypothesis, no evidence, just vibes. When one of those changes acc
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Self-verification step that catches an agent's own hallucinated file paths and APIs
My coding agent kept confidently importing functions that don't exist and referencing files it never opened. The plan looked great, the code didn't run. Classic. What moved the needle was a mandatory
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Debugging an intermittent asyncio race the model kept papering over
Had a flaky test that failed maybe 1 in 30 runs. Every model I tried "fixed" it by adding an await asyncio.sleep(0.1) somewhere, which is not a fix, it is a bribe. The real bug was two coroutines muta
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Structured root-cause prompt that turns a stack trace into a ranked fix list
When I paste a raw stack trace, models tend to fixate on the deepest frame and suggest a fix right there, even when the real cause is three frames up where a bad value was created. The topmost error i