Exercise: Bug Hunt
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Exercise: Bug Hunt
Reading about debugging builds the vocabulary. The Bug Hunt exercise builds the reflex.
You will be given a series of broken prompts and the flawed AI outputs they produced. Your job is to identify what went wrong — not just that it went wrong, but the specific gap between instruction and intent that caused the failure. Then you will fix the prompt and see whether the corrected version produces the right output.
This is the skill in practice: reading a bad output, tracing it back to a cause, and making a targeted correction. The same diagnostic loop you would run on any real failure, with the feedback cycle compressed so you can develop the pattern quickly.
Work through the exercise at: Think Like a Coder — Bug Hunt