Debug With Understanding

ChatGPT📝 TextNov 30, 2025tom_design

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Stop the endless Stack Overflow rabbit hole. Get the fix AND understand why it broke — so you never make the same mistake twice.

ChatGPT Prompt

Help me debug this code.

What I'm trying to do: [intended behavior] What's actually happening: [current behavior, including exact error messages]

Code:

[paste your code]

Context:

  • Environment: [OS, language version, framework versions]
  • What I've already tried: [list attempts]
  • When it happens: [always, intermittently, specific conditions]

I want to understand:

  1. What is the exact bug?
  2. WHY is it happening? (root cause, not just symptoms)
  3. How to fix it
  4. How to avoid this type of error in the future

Success criteria: Bug is fixed AND I understand why it happened.

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