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title: "Not Every Bug Needs an LLM"
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author: "Nigel"
published: 2026-05-10T21:48:57.108Z
updated: 2026-05-10T21:49:40.172Z
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# Not Every Bug Needs an LLM

**[Nigel](https://daily.dev/sources/nefnnye8duh52qu1clmeg)** · [@thatdeveloperguy](https://daily.dev/thatdeveloperguy) · 1 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A developer shares a quick experience where they fixed a bug in an Apache ECharts file in 4 minutes, faster than waiting for Claude Sonnet to finish analyzing the same problem. The takeaway: reflexively delegating every debugging task to an LLM isn't always the most efficient approach — sometimes direct human debugging is faster.

## Content

Often when an issue appears in a large file, the instinct is to throw it at an LLM immediately - especially for something like Apache ECharts.

Today I screenshotted the issue and sent it to Claude Sonnet with a ~30 word prompt.

Before Claude finished analysing the problem, I had already:

- found the bug
- fixed it
- and reuploaded the file to the server

The fix took me about 4 minutes.

The LLM likely would have gone down a 10+ minute rabbit hole.

Reminder: not every problem should be delegated to AI. Sometimes the fastest debugger is still you.

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