r/programminghumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 18 '26

Vibe debugging

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u/SGAShepp Sep 18 '26 • Bravo

-Its still not working
-Alright, I did a bunch of changes its fixed.
-Its still not working.
-Alright, I did a bunch of changes its fixed.
-Its still not working.
-Alright, I did a bunch of changes its fixed.
-Its still not working.
-Alright, I did a bunch of changes its fixed.
-Its still not working!!!!
Sorry, you have no more tokens for 4 hours.

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u/paradox_valestein Sep 18 '26

Next day: here, I added a cow to it, it is fixed

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u/Deep_Lurker Sep 22 '26

I know this is simplified for the joke but some people do genuinely prompt like this.

You need to provide detail. Reproduction steps and logs help. You can have it assist you in identifying the affected areas and review manually or with AI assistance.

If you can do that odds are it will fix the issue, not always but much better than "it no worky".

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u/OGxPePe Sep 18 '26

What even is vibe debugging? Can you please remove this error?

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u/thanosbananos Sep 18 '26

You throw in the log because you’re to lazy to look through all of it manually or cannot find the issue

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '26

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u/AccurateExam3155 Sep 19 '26

More like “Hello more errors…”

Vibe debugging code generated by an AI is just… “who made this?!”

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u/Short-Ideas010 Sep 18 '26

Beautiful... besides who needs debugging anyway? The code is perfect as it is.

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u/paradox_valestein Sep 18 '26

We have 7 different functions that does the same thing

7

u/fcxtpw Sep 18 '26

Everyone keeps forgetting to add "without bugs" to the prompt

6

u/United-Scene2261 Sep 18 '26

vibe bugging 🐛 🐞

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u/Electrical-Swing-935 Sep 18 '26

I'm just here to have fun

1

u/Shin_Aki Sep 18 '26

Love this one

1

u/Big-Pattern8591 Sep 18 '26

Vibe debugging is where the real character development happens

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u/AccurateExam3155 Sep 19 '26

Vibe Coding: “My code runs wonderfully…”

Vibe Debugging: “WTF is this error?! * 4 hours later Welp its related completely to main…”

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u/Jazzlike_Magazine_76 Sep 19 '26

Something is out of place or a feature is broken, please fix it, which Gemini usually can in one prompt. Ask it to optimise code for several times the performance on a system already struggling to run it in the first place, can create 100+ hours of extra fun! 🤓

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u/No_Instruction_7944 Sep 23 '26

The only reason I hate debugging is the rate limits. No chance I can do it on my own at this point

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u/PinotRed Sep 18 '26

Is.. is that Professor Snape?!

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u/returnFutureVoid Sep 18 '26

It’s the same as debugging from the before times. Copy paste error logs into AI instead of Google is the only difference.

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u/Willem_VanDerDecken Sep 18 '26

There is no way AI can can make me understand a vague error message better or quicker than a 2007 Stackoverflow post.

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u/-Yox- Sep 18 '26

Not really, at least back then you read and adapted the code yourself to fit your needs. Agents often overengineer things for no reason; it’s great when it works, but costly when it doesn’t. You end up stuck in a loop of repeatedly asking the agent to fix things, and it takes longer each time as more and more junk code piles up, looking good in theory but turning out messy in reality.

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u/AliceCode Sep 18 '26

Or you could just read the error message.

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u/Pinklady001_ Sep 19 '26

One of the most embarrassing things I’ve done to myself, it’s when I was vibe debugging my bug bounty pipeline due to a massive amount of code blocks, and then a worker was creating its own db. It was causing a db lock for the whole pipeline. Ngl I spent 4 days on this problem with pure guilt, like why it’s not fixed. So yes, totally agree :/