Comment by sublinear

All the time i do it. I will often provide claude with read only credentials to the db or api access to the logs and it will nail the problem almost every time

I closed six bugs last week doing precisely this. They were minor issues but impressive nonetheless.

Some codebase are a logical mess and have bad names as well. Sometimes Claude is wrong because the semantics of our legacy codebase doesn’t makes sense. Sometimes it find problems at the wrong places because of that.