AI Engineers Who Can’t Debug Are Getting Fired (Here’s How I Debug with Claude Code)

“AI is creating a generation of developers who can’t debug their own code.”

That headline made rounds across every developer forum this month.

And the reaction was split…half the comments agreed, the other half called it fear-mongering.

Here’s my take after shipping production code with AI agents for five months: the headline is half right!

AI agents can make you a worse debugger…if you use them wrong. They can make you a significantly better debugger if you use them the way I’m about to show you.

I broke a working app on purpose.

Five bugs.

Then I fixed all five using Claude Code.

Here’s the exact workflow.

The Setup

I took the poll app I created in my previous article(React, Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind, Supabase) and introduced five real bugs.