Lesson 11: Debugging With AI Without Falling Into the Guessing Loop

What happens when an AI hears “it still doesn’t work” four times and responds with four unrelated code changes? The software may become harder to understand, with more changed files but no clearer explanation of the fault. This is the guessing loop, and evidence-first debugging replaces speculation with a defensible investigation. An immediate code change is not a necessary or reliable first response to a fault.