This is no different than when LLMs write code. In both scenarios they often turn into bullshit factories that are capable, willing, and happy to write pages and pages of intricate, convincing-sounding explanations for bugs that don't exist, wasting everyone's time and testing my patience.

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simonw 5 days ago | parent [-]

That's not my experience at all. When I ask them to track down the root cause of a bug about 80% of the time they reply with a few sentences correctly identifying the source of the bug.

1/5 times the get it wrong and I might waste a minute or two confirming they they missed. I can live with those odds.

	▲	dns_snek 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm assuming you delegate for most of your bugs? I only ask when I'm stumped and at that point it's very prone to generating false positives.