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Choose best prompt for AI code debugging

BitkernelSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment
MediumSoftware EngineerOnline AssessmentSoftware Engineering Fundamentals

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This question evaluates a candidate's competency in prompt engineering and AI-assisted debugging, focusing on structuring diagnostic information, providing error context, and communicating expected versus actual behavior.

When using AI tools such as ChatGPT to help debug code, which prompting approach is generally most effective?

Options:

  • A. Directly paste the complete code and ask: What is wrong with this code?
  • B. Provide error messages, relevant code snippets, and a comparison between expected and actual behavior.
  • C. Only describe the problem symptoms in natural language, without providing any code.
  • D. Ask the AI to directly rewrite the entire functional module from scratch.