Lobster Debugging 🦞

Systematic root-cause debugging. No guessing. No symptom patches. Ever.

The Iron Law

NO FIXES WITHOUT ROOT CAUSE INVESTIGATION FIRST

4-Phase Process

Phase 1: Root Cause Investigation

1. Read error messages completely (they often contain the solution)
2. Reproduce consistently (can't fix what you can't reproduce)
3. Check recent changes (git diff, recent commits)
4. Add diagnostic instrumentation at component boundaries
5. Binary search the codebase to isolate the failure point