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DEBUGGING WITH AI: CAN IT REPLACE AN EXPERIENCED DEVELOPER?

developerway.com28 min read

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

This dev tested Claude on three real React/Next.js bugs ranging from easy to hard. It aced the simple one, half-fixed the medium one (but introduced new issues), and completely failed the tricky one, confidently going in circles with wrong fixes. AI is a great first pass for standard bugs, but knowing when to stop prompting and start thinking is the real skill.