Describe How to Reproduce
Tell Claude the exact steps to trigger the bug and how often it happens. Intermittent bugs are the hardest to fix: giving reproduction steps and frequency helps Claude narrow down timing issues, race conditions, and flaky dependencies.
Where you'll practice this
One Promptles scenario teaches this principle directly.
The Intermittent Bug
Your e-commerce checkout flow has a subtle bug. When a customer submits the order form in `checkout.js`, the order is placed successfully and appears in the database, but roughly 1 in 10 times the confirmation email never sends. There are no errors in the logs. It fails…