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# Debugging in the Dark


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 11, 2025
- **Time:** 10:55–11:00 (5 min)
- **Room:** Stage 8
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark)

## Description

Bug trackers were supposed to help us. Instead, they often leave developers in the dark, chasing vague reports, reproducing edge cases, and reading logs like detectives at a crime scene. In this talk, we’ll break down the hidden cost of poor-quality bug reports, the myth of efficient debugging, and why fixing symptoms is not the same as solving root causes. We’ll explore how modern tools and AI are transforming debugging with context-rich reports, execution tracing, and code-level fix suggestions. If you’re tired of “it works on my machine” and late-night debugging marathons, this talk is for you. It’s time to rethink how we ship quality.

## Speaker

### [Nishil Patel](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@nishil-patel)

CEO of BetterBugs


## Related talks at this congress

- [82 Bugs I Collected in a Year You Won’t Believe Made It to Production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/737-82-bugs-i-collected) — François Martin
- [Code Red: When Your Tools Turn Against You ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/510-code-red-when-your) — Aaron Bray, Julian Totzek-Hallhuber
- [ The Limits of Prompting: ArchitectingTrustworthy Coding Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/637-the-limits-of) — Nimrod Kor
- [Real-World Security for Busy Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/860-real-world-security) — Kevin Lewis