In my experience, AI is good at troubleshooting, but it does eat through tokens. Yesterday I had a middleware issue, and it burned through all of my Claude tokens (hit Pro rate limit) and then another 10-20k tokens after renewal finding what turned out to be a simple bug. So it really does depend on the problem and the rate you're paying for tokens. And it took a lot of time sitting there approving its plans and then nudging it in other directions until the bug was found.
Maybe I'll try that next time. It had to go in to bundled code in node_modules to print some extra debugging data to find the source of the bug. Maybe it could have been captured as a test.
I hate it when it wastes my precious subscription tokens on npm crap. "Replace that shit" is also a go to. Every time I deviate from that I regret it later.
In my experience, AI is good at troubleshooting, but it does eat through tokens. Yesterday I had a middleware issue, and it burned through all of my Claude tokens (hit Pro rate limit) and then another 10-20k tokens after renewal finding what turned out to be a simple bug. So it really does depend on the problem and the rate you're paying for tokens. And it took a lot of time sitting there approving its plans and then nudging it in other directions until the bug was found.