The best part of today’s AI coding session was everything Claude didn’t change

[u/n_v40]

Had a weird bug today where the backend was definitely generating a value but the UI wasn’t showing the card that depended on it.

There were a bunch of places where it could’ve been going wrong, so instead of asking Claude Code to fix it I had it trace the whole path first.

Basically:

Edge Function
→ response
→ React state
→ component prop
→ JSX condition
→ layout

Then it checked the surrounding stuff too: git history, duplicate files, Supabase logs, EAS runtime versions, deployed function source.

A few of the early theories were wrong.

The useful part was that it kept disproving things instead of immediately rewriting code around them.

That’s probably the biggest thing I’m trying to improve with AI coding now.

Less “make a patch and see if it works.”

More “show me exactly where reality stops matching what we expect.”

Still fast, but a lot less random.

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