How to Debug AI-Generated Code: A Systematic Approach

The Debugging Trap With AI Code You built something cool with Cursor or Bolt. It worked on the demo. Then a user tried it with a slightly different input — and it blew up. You paste the error into the AI, it confidently rewrites the function, and now a different thing is broken. Welcome to the debugging trap. Research from GitClear and others suggests around 43% of AI-generated projects need real debugging work before they're production-ready . AI coding tools are good at the happy path — the fl