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Root-Cause Debugging That Teaches You to Reason About Bugs

Instead of jumping to a fix, the AI explains how it reads your bug, lists all possible root causes, narrows them down, lays out what to check in order, then fixes it and shows you how to approach similar bugs.

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My code and the problem I am seeing:
[code + error or bug]

Do not jump straight to a fix. Follow these steps instead:

Step 1: explain how you understand the problem and list every root cause that could explain it.
Step 2: narrow them down to the most likely causes, with your reasoning.
Step 3: propose a structured way to debug it: what to check first, what second, and so on.
Step 4: fix the issue and explain the fix clearly.

Finally, teach me how to think through bugs of this kind in the future.
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