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GuideAI DevelopmentAugust 14, 2026

The Vibe Coder's Debugging Cheat Sheet

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Ten ready-to-use debugging prompts for AI coding tools: the default bug prompt, testing your own theory, silent failures, failing tests, regressions, broken APIs, mobile breakage, escaping debugging loops, and minimal reproductions.

What's inside
  • The golden rule: diagnose first, fix second
  • Ten prompts for ten specific failure situations
  • How to stop the AI confidently fixing the wrong thing
  • Escaping the loop where every "fix" makes it worse
  • The prompt to run before letting AI touch anything important

Diagnose First. Fix Second.

Copy-paste prompts for when your app is on fire and you have no idea why. Ten situations, ten prompts, zero guessing. The golden rule: if you have an error message, paste the whole stack trace — not a summary.


The Ten Prompts

The default bug prompt. Testing your own theory before the AI follows you off a cliff. Something's wrong but there's no error. A failing test. "It worked before" regressions. A broken API. Mobile falling apart below a certain width. Escaping the loop where the AI keeps "fixing" it. Building a minimal reproduction. And the most important one: making it explain the bug before it touches any code.


What's in the Guide

All ten prompts ready to copy, the complete debugging loop from error to verified fix, and a bookmark list for when the prompt isn't enough.

The full breakdown is in the PDF.


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