🚨 Before asking AI to fix your code, read the error yourself.
One habit that can seriously improve your software development skills is learning to understand error messages instead of immediately copying them into AI.
Most errors already give you valuable clues:
→ What broke
→ Where it broke
→ What the program expected
→ Sometimes even why it broke
And there’s another benefit: the better you understand the error, the better you can prompt AI.
Instead of saying “fix this error”, you can explain what you think is happening, what you’ve already tried, and what behaviour you expected.
That gives AI much better context and usually leads to more accurate solutions.
Use AI to speed up debugging—not to replace the skill of debugging.
Do you usually read the error first, or send it straight to AI? 👀
u/muneebcodes — 23 hours ago