'Fixed!' for the fourth time
Your AI has said 'Fixed!' four times. The bug is still there, login now fails too, and you have spent the afternoon's credits.
This answers: What if the AI keeps failing to fix a bug? No coding needed. 3 quick decisions.
- Supervising your AI
- Debugging without panic
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What if the AI keeps failing to fix a bug?
Stop patching forward. Roll back to the last version that worked, ask the AI to reproduce the bug and show the exact error before changing anything, then fix one cause at a time and re-run the failing steps yourself. A clear explanation is not proof that a fix works.
Breaks at AI agent: Guessing instead of reproducing
Why AI tools write this bug
Each new attempt builds on the previous broken changes, and the AI optimises for sounding confident, so a loop can continue long after it stopped making progress.
How to fix it
- Roll back to the last working version.
3 more steps, and a prompt that checks your own app for this bug. Part of Pro.
UnlockCommon questions
- Why does each AI fix break something else?
- Without a confirmed cause, each change is a guess layered on earlier guesses. Rolling back clears the pile.