There is a specific kind of annoyance in building a saas where your logic is perfect but your output is just… slightly off. When i was building an AI tool the AI was randomly dropping constraints and I was convinced it was a model issue. I spent 4 hours manually tweaking my system prompt getting more frustrated by the second. so instead of asking Claude Code for a fix I asked it to audit the execution flow. I gave it the logs and said “Dont rewrite the code tell me where the data is losing its weight before it hits the API.” Claude didnt just look at the code it used the CLI to run a grep across my recent commits. It realized that a middleware refactor I did two days ago was accidentally stripping the <tags> from my prompts before they even left my server. Once this was fixed the product finally clicked. I was able to ship it (at promptoptimizr.com if you want to see) I managed to go from broken mess to production ready fix purely because Claude helped me stop vibe coding my fixes and start actually auditing the logic. My takeaway would be dont always ask Claude Why is this broken instead start asking it to “Identify the delta between my intent and the current state” Its much better at finding where you lied to yourself in your own code. It feels like it has a much higher IQ when its looking for mistakes than when its starting from scratch. How has your experience been using claude code for debugging? submitted by /u/Dismal-Rip-5220
Originally posted by u/Dismal-Rip-5220 on r/ClaudeCode
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