AI writes code in 2 days, debugging takes 10: Where does the time go?
Imaginary-Wish3952 · reddit · 2026-08-17
A developer noted that generating code with AI took just 2 days, while debugging took 10. The poster seeks to understand if this ratio reflects traditional debugging or a new activity entirely.
They are asking the community for specific experiences:
- What was your build-to-debug ratio?
- What exactly were you doing during the worst debugging days (reading code, adding print statements, talking to AI)?
- What were you doing right before finding the bug?
- Was the bug in the AI's code, your glue code, or the interface between them?
- Does debugging AI-generated code feel different from debugging your own?
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