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I teamed up two AI tools to solve a major bug - but they couldn't do it without me


When Codex failed to debug my plugin, Deep Research delivered - with my careful guidance. Here's how combining AI tools can solve problems faster and supercharge developer workflows.

Making matters worse, I really only had a once-a-day chance to catch anything because the only reliable manifestation of the problem was the first time I tried to use my test site at the beginning of the day. But I also knew that doing so would mean I was embarking on what would probably be weeks of frustrating work that would essentially eliminate all the productivity gains I had achieved from doing the pair programming with the AI. Instead of running and freezing the server for every single web access, it ran once on startup, and once more if a website owner requested a recheck.

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