debugging prompts
19 prompts tagged debugging, drawn from 4 categories. All free to copy, and all editable once they are in your own library.
- Help me reproduce this bugA bug report exists but you can't trigger it locally.Long🔍 Code review & debugging
- Read this stack trace with meAn error you haven't seen before, with a trace that isn't obviously pointing anywhere.Long🔍 Code review & debugging
- Find why this is slowSomething is sluggish and you don't yet know what to measure.Long🔍 Code review & debugging
- Hunt for race conditionsAnything async, concurrent, or touching shared state.Long🔍 Code review & debugging
- Rubber duck, but it asks questionsStuck, and not yet sure what you're even stuck on.Long🔍 Code review & debugging
- Why is this failing?Something broke and you want candidates before you start guessing.Short🔍 Code review & debugging
- Smallest fix that worksA bug you need gone now, not an architecture you need rebuilt.Short🔍 Code review & debugging
- What should I log here?A path that will fail in production and tell you nothing.Short🔍 Code review & debugging
- Second opinion on my fixYou have a fix that works and want to know if it fixes the right thing.Medium🔍 Code review & debugging
- Explain this bug to a teammateWriting the incident note or the message that goes in the channel.Medium🔍 Code review & debugging
- Find where this join is duplicating rowsYour totals are suspiciously round multiples of what they should be.Long📊 Data & SQL
- Read this query plan with meYou have an EXPLAIN output and no idea which line is the problem.Long📊 Data & SQL
- Build and explain a spreadsheet formulaWhen the lookup keeps returning N/A and the nesting is four deep.Long📊 Data & SQL
- Sanity-check a number before I believe itA result jumped 40% and you want to rule out your own query first.Long📊 Data & SQL
- Debug my mental modelWhen your predictions about a system keep turning out wrong.Long🧠 Learning & explaining
- Make this flaky test deterministicA test that passes locally and fails in CI roughly one run in ten.Long🧪 Tests & QA
- Diagnose why this test is failingA red test where the failure output does not point anywhere obvious.Long🧪 Tests & QA
- Why is this flaky?A test that fails once every twenty runs.Short🧪 Tests & QA
- Diagnose this failing testA red test with an unhelpful failure output.Medium🧪 Tests & QA
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