alt Hacker NewsInteresting, I actually find LLMs very useful at debugging. They are good at doing mindless grunt work and a great deal of debugging in my case is going through APIs and figuring out which of the many layers of abstraction ended up passing some wrong argument into a method call because of some misinterpretation of the documentation.
Claude Code can do this in the background tirelessly while I can personally focus more on tasks that aren't so "grindy".
They are good at purely mechanical debugging - throw them an error, they can figure out which line threw it, and therefore take a reasonable stab at how to fix it. Anything where the bug is actually in the code, sure, you'll get an answer. But they are terrible at weird runtime behaviors caused by unexpected data.