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AI made me a worse debugger. Here's the exact skill I lost.
Community description: The last ten bugs I fixed, I fixed the same way. Stack trace in. Fix out. Apply, run, green, move on....
Dev.to | Sep 27, 2026 | Info Inlet
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Then a bug showed up with no stack trace. AI can fix any bug that comes with a stack trace. That day it took me most of an afternoon, because I'd spent a year letting the stack trace hand me the suspect.
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