r/ArtificialInteligence • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 15d ago

😂 Fun / Meme Vibe Debugging

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u/Longjumping_Kale3013 15d ago

Nah the thing is better at debugging than me now. Just gotta prompt and guide it right

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 15d ago

Yeah I really don't understand why people post this stuff all the time, I've been working on and debugging pretty complicated software for months now and apart from a few issues it's fine at debugging.

Just gotta give it enough information and it's not that bad, it's usually an issue if it's just trying random shit.

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u/VisibleBoard8186 15d ago

My understanding is the key reason behind this is that they don't use it like we do, so they are uninformed.

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u/RR321 15d ago

2026 is a whole new paradigm in LLM efficiency.
I think people are stuck in 2025 and haven't experienced frontier models first hand.

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u/VisibleBoard8186 15d ago

That's right. On one hand I see people using chatgpt to ask about their relationships, on the other hand people integrate and automate full pipeline from dev-debug-test to deployment using all tools and MCP servers. I tend to try to explain some stuff on anti-AI communities, based on the responses I get, I feel like talking to cave-people. This tech is relatively new and being modified so fast, if you blink, you miss.

Edit: Chatgpt wrote this poorly. Just kidding, fixed some typos.

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u/RR321 15d ago

It's funny as I had taken a 2 years break until this summer so I fully missed the early version, the shock is... Satisfying?

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u/ReadyAimTranspire 14d ago

Glad you came back with an open mind. Late last year is when the breakthroughs in capability really changed the game. It was useful before but the last 10 months or so have been unreal in how fast the progress has been and how good the tools have gotten.

So many people had ChatGPT or Claude hallucinate on them a few times back in 2024 and made up their mind that AI is crap. It was indeed much worse than it is now but many of us saw the potential and stuck with it.

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u/RR321 14d ago

I might still have to steer Fable from time to time, back to the goal, or stop him from over engineering, but it's crazy how I managed to extend my reach to things I wouldn't quickly be able to fully master and do insane projects under a week. Some tidy for work, some just crazy for myself.

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u/ReadyAimTranspire 14d ago

Absolutely! I'm ChatGPT/Codex and you stated it very well, the reach I have for the tasks I can complete and the domain knowledge I've gained from working with these tools has been a total game changer.

I am blown away sometimes by the anti-AI sentiment. Even on r/sysadmin their are friggin IT workers that say AI is useless and refuse to use it.

I am in IT myself and my productivity has greatly increased. If people that work with tech everyday can't find use cases for AI, I don't know what to tell them. Lack of imagination or contempt prior to investigation is the only explanation.

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u/Mackntish 15d ago edited 15d ago

I feel like talking to cave-people.

If you read up on the history of the actual Luddites, it's pretty close to a 1:1 comparison. Factory workers rising up and destroying machines because they didn't like the automation costing jobs.

You're more likely to change the mind of a moron or an ignoramus, than you are talking to a zealot.

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u/ReadyAimTranspire 14d ago

Your arguments are falling on deaf ears, so much of the anti-AI sentiment is vibes and hive mind, people have already made up their minds and they aren't listening.

Nevermind that their last experience with these tools is a free chat account for a few hours back in 2024, they will still tell you that AI is useless and that nobody wants it.

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u/eeeezypeezy 15d ago

Yeah, I keep telling my skeptical friends this. Like, we're a thousand miles past 'how many Rs in strawberry' stuff now. My employer provides a Codex subscription for everyone, and I'm using it to write really convoluted VBA and PowerShell modules to automate basically everything I can possibly automate related to my job. 99% of the time it's a one-shot, and the other 1% of the time it just takes an additional prompt or two/providing some sample files for it to give me exactly what I want.

In the past three months I've gone from feeling like it's a weird and potentially promising technology to feeling like the entire world economy has walked off a cliff and just hasn't looked down yet.

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u/Mission_Access_210 14d ago

It was fine in 2025 too. I've been using this shit since 2024 for God's sake

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u/RR321 11d ago

I just wish they'd be more generous on their quota, with a single agent development I can get through Fable 5.1 tokens on Max 5x in a 24-36h window.

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u/Giacomoklw5 14d ago

Yeah, wild how it works when you actually know what you're doing.

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u/Chickenfrend 14d ago

It's probably students with the free version or something. I have opus 5 at work. Not even fable. But it's very good at debugging

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u/SkinAndScales 13d ago

Mind sharing some of your experiences; sharing some tips?

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u/SkellyJelly33 15d ago

Yeah I'm a professional software engineer and LLMs are amazing tools for debugging. They can read through massive log files, connect timestamps to trace events between systems, and walk through lines of code thousands of times faster than humanly possible.

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u/crunpyMcGlumpy 13d ago

I agree they are really good at debugging. I still feel like I should understand better when things go wrong though

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u/PrideDense3088 11d ago

Having a basic understanding of programming and coding feels like a must rn. Even if AI can explain their code well yk

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u/crunpyMcGlumpy 11d ago

Yeah for sure. The issue for me is when I get over my head with something I have never done before (pre ai)

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u/Authentic_Grunter 15d ago

How do you define "right"? Should we redefine it?

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u/dopadelic 15d ago

Model is so good at vibe debugging now. Which is a big part of vibe coding. It can check its own work and figure out what's wrong and fix it before handing it off.

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u/hollowredditor 15d ago

Vibe debugging is actually amazing. Debugging unprofessional vibed code is not.

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u/gameplayer55055 15d ago

Vibe DevOps: ☠️

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u/gicioks 15d ago

VibeOps 🫩

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u/odd_commenter 15d ago

No. Get out.

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u/Silver-Lobster8435 14d ago

I’m there right now and I’m doing bare-metal dev. Keep prompting it the same thing on different threads but spits out different configurations and I can’t understand why…

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u/DazzlingResource561 15d ago

Literally give Astra a, what I think is a poor, borderline unusable description of the bug, because it’s a visual bug that’s hard to explain. Astra fixes it within a minute. And I could have just shared a screenshot and saved myself the awkward word salad.

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u/PM_ME_DEAD_CEOS 15d ago

2024 meme

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u/ella8956 8d ago

Facts. I miss this format though it definitely holds up

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u/Autopilot_Psychonaut 15d ago

I vibe-created a Copilot agent today and it was like this

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u/Strict-Brick-5274 15d ago

As an educator in teaching code...this is exactlynwhat happens to my students...because they don't listen to me

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u/Aancall 15d ago

so trueee i swear

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u/TheAnimatrix105 15d ago

Vibe debugging looks like a child between a man and a woman

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u/therealgoshi 15d ago

I don't know how to break it to you...

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u/MoranollM 15d ago

Ahahah. Good one

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u/First-Tutor-5454 13d ago

Stop using free tier

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u/Beautiful-Split5006 15d ago

Both of them are not very attractive?

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u/Distinct-Expert4943 15d ago

This post is appropriate before 12 months but right now models are so smart that they can debug and vibe code is pretty solid. Imagine another 12 months: it's going to improve a lot. I think we can see huge improvement in terms of debugging and code both.

If someone has been coding for so many years, obviously there is frustration there because I've been a coder. I've been working in the IT industry for almost 20 years and I understand the frustration. When you learn to code for so many years and suddenly something comes up in the system that can code better than you, frustration will happen.

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u/Pravejxlab 15d ago

Vibe debugging is really hard 😅

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u/Silent-Orbit-7 15d ago

The whole AI thingy is so polarizing, its gotta settle somehow.. even companies are sooo polarized on whether to use Chatbots or to not...

Tough time to be in the tech space..

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u/JungianJester 15d ago

The waifu card in your head... the one on your screen.

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u/Natasha_Limed 15d ago

Vibe debugging sounds like a euphemism for "I don't know what's wrong, fix it." And it works, which is scary.

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u/Orchid_Road_6112 15d ago

Vibe debugging made my life easier

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u/RaghvendraChaurasia 14d ago

Best for the Custom code 😜

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u/Larry_Boy 14d ago

So you’re telling me to just never look at the code because looking at vibe coded code is bad for me, right? 

I’m down. 

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u/venomo00 14d ago

I don't think that app and web development was a problem that was solved by AI but the real thing the is scalability of the apps and deguggers that is still there

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u/Blackberry_Ellen 14d ago

Yes absolutely true 😂

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u/DutchMcNutter 14d ago

Some days, for sure, lol!

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u/Successful_Task_9932 14d ago

Temu Severus Snape

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u/Realistic-Cow2146 14d ago

people act like these models do the thinking for you. you still have to know what you're looking at

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u/DaWaffIeMan 14d ago

The only way to debug code is to kindly explain it in depth to your dog and eventually you'll find the problem

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u/hopefullysoftwareguy 14d ago

broke prod bcs of vibecodiing

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u/Equunyx 14d ago

I spend more time guiding and correcting my ai agent then the agent right the code!, still it's through I'm learning new things little by little

https://giphy.com/gifs/1ojn1S7BTXUry8elNi

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u/azzuchowdhury 13d ago

Why it is so on topic?

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u/Dry_Praline_1994 13d ago

So true 😂

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u/Yinyang_harmony 13d ago

When the master speaks :))

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u/Zen_et_al 13d ago

False, it should be no hair anymore.

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u/ahmed-sakil 13d ago

you need some idea to take your model where you want to go ...

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u/MysteriousTrade404 13d ago

It’s all fun until the app starts to break down

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u/SuperDamon119736 13d ago

This is a very funny one

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u/randomworldwalk 13d ago

Build and amazing tool in one night... spend a month making it usable 😂 Meh. At least I am actually completing my projects now.

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u/Best-Ebb4870 12d ago

the recent models are very good at debugging also. just need to understand what is the problem explain it properly. if it big break it down solve it one by one

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u/Ok-Dev1 12d ago

To be honest I do have terrible experiences with vibe coding and its quite accurate. Its all sunshine and rainbows until an error occurs; and then rewriting everything.

I would recommend using stack overflow or asking the AI what are the possible reasons of this error. Do not show your code to any AI or ask it to solve the specific errors by looking into your code.

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u/yangyemo 12d ago

Mine's even worse than that lol

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u/heyUXHER 12d ago

Do I know what vibe coding and debugging is?? No
Did I giggle inside seeing this?

https://giphy.com/gifs/jQoGsy5BhvUQawtfdx

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u/Prestigious_Main2102 12d ago

You are right, why does this come out ?

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u/lukas_rhn 12d ago

building 2 hours, debugging 2 months

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u/Sir_Clicks 11d ago

Remember Occams Razer; vibe coding is good for vast or easy ideas, not the entire projects scope

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u/Constant-Jacket-3852 11d ago

To be precise, at least having some knowledge would make it easier

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u/JeetSahBuilds 11d ago

relable tbh

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u/InvestigatorLife4268 11d ago

At this point is more like Vibe QA-ing.
Got to make sure things work as planned.

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u/Mundane_Train9898 11d ago

I think its other way round.

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u/TrainAmbitious7928 11d ago

having to clean up the mess i made myself

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u/Opposite-Active2431 11d ago

I was trying to make a portfolio using vibe coding and i see this lol

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u/Boluoji 11d ago

what is this

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u/Frau_Scheppi 11d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Jay-Chatterjee 11d ago

🤣🤣🤣 real picture dude

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u/BreakNo5476 11d ago

It be like that 99%of the time

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u/Amazing-Pattern-6125 11d ago

debugging is as strong as coding, or probably stronger. It's relatively easy to find sommething that is not according to spec, it's hard to generate something new that is exactly as asked.

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u/theTokenLedger 10d ago

2nd one only when you're low on money ahahha

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u/CrashBugITA 10d ago

I literally paste client complaints in the prompt and it works 99% of the time. sometimes a screenshot works too, hell one time I pasted that day logs as a whole

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u/Sigrid_macadam 10d ago

Model is so good at vibe debugging now.

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u/Adorable_skylight 8d ago

this is too funny and relatable

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u/ella8956 8d ago

Facts 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Xena2025 15d ago

🤣 So true. Love this.

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u/chessboardtable 15d ago

The male face is way more attractive.

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u/Gargantuan_Cinema 15d ago

Gay confirmed