AI asked for one broken JavaScript line. I handed it to the whole kitchen.😅 More tokens, more chaos. Now I share only the bug, error, and goal. What’s your best trick for giving AI the right context?

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Great point. I’ve also found that giving AI too much context can sometimes make the result worse.

For debugging, I usually try to provide only the essential parts:

• the error message
• the expected behavior
• the smallest reproducible example

A focused context often helps AI reason better than a huge codebase dump.