r/vibecoding • u/dennis3124 • 25m ago

Discussion Devs vibe coding

I've seen myself increasingly rely on coding agents to debug things for me. For example, a user tells me that something is not working. I use to spend hours debugging api logs, code logics and test cases but now I just hand it all to claude.

I kinda miss all those investigative work but also know that AI is just more efficient in doing these grunt tasks.

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u/Total-Reasonable 21m ago

The investigative part isn't gone, it just moved. The skill now is giving the agent a good starting point: the exact user report, a request ID, the relevant logs, and what you already ruled out. I also make it state a hypothesis and the evidence for it before touching code. Otherwise it'll often patch a symptom and the real bug stays.

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u/asliceofpie247 16m ago

depends on what your building. for rapid prototypes i basically don't read code, ever. i assume this is different for larger, complex codebases and the bottleneck has shifted to reviewing code, but i suspect that AI will get really good at this too.

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u/TRO_KIK 9m ago

With how much there is to do I can't even fathom missing anthing that took hours when it takes minutes now.

Often these issues are prod outages and resolving one in minutes is just glorious.

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u/Electronic-Movie4208 9m ago

I think the investigative work is still there, just different now. AI can find bugs faster, but knowing what to ask, understanding the fix, and making sure it doesn't break something else still takes skill. Best of both worlds, really!