Post by @alanonai

Reproduce the Bug Before Fixing It Watch how fast AI fixes a bug. You paste the error, it finds the cause, hands you a patch. Genuinely impressive. Here’s what slips by. You apply the fix, the error goes away, you move on. But you never actually saw the bug happen on purpose, so you have no idea if it’s really gone or just hiding. The thing is, AI can chase the cause and write the fix all day. What it can’t do is watch your app and tell you the bug is actually dead. It knows the code runs now. That’s a much weaker claim than “the broken thing works.” It’ll sound just as confident whether it nailed it or quietly changed something unrelated. AI generates outputs. Engineers create systems. So before you let AI fix anything, make the bug happen on demand first. Then apply the fix and watch that exact failure stop. Revert it, watch it come back. That’s proof. Anything else is hope. This one’s called Reproducing the Bug Before Fixing It. Link to the article in the comments. #ai #vibecoding #coding #programming #debugging