Pattern 11: AI-Augmented Debugging

Turn Stack Traces into Solutions in Seconds

Overview

Feed AI every clue—error, stack trace, code—and it becomes your debugger. You steer; AI thinks louder.

What you gain:

• Gibberish errors translated to English
• Probable causes, ranked
• The why behind each fix
• Reusable patterns for next time

Use when failures are opaque: new frameworks, production-only bugs, multi-service failures.

Key Principles

1. Ship the whole crime scene – Error + stack + code + config
2. Ask “why” before “how” – Understand to prevent regression
3. AI suggests, you verify – Test hypotheses on real data
4. Export the pattern – Create reusable checklists

Exercise

TBD

Your Turn

Hunt a live bug today. Gather all evidence, ask AI for hypotheses, test each, save the pattern.