Debugging with AI without going in circles

You paste the error. It hands you a fix. The fix does not work.

So you paste the new error. It apologises, tries something else, and that changes the error again.

Forty minutes later the original bug is still there and you have three new ones sitting on top of it.

Nobody chose to work like this. It happens because pasting an error is easy and thinking is not, and because the model will always answer. It never says "I don't have enough information yet."

The fix is a protocol, not a better prompt.

Reproduce it reliably before you diagnose anything,
Read the whole stack trace, not the last line,
One hypothesis at a time, written down,
Make the model state what it EXPECTS before it touches code,
Revert every fix that didn't work, immediately 🔥

I wrote the whole thing. 7 steps, the 4 bug classes that each need a different opening move, and 6 copy-paste prompts including the one that stops the model guessing.

Free. No email wall.

Comment "DEBUG" 👇 and I'll send it to your DMs.