The AI Workflow That Saved Me From a Debugging Spiral (And How to Replicate It)

Last quarter I lost a full afternoon to a bug that, in hindsight, took 11 minutes to fix once I changed how I was talking to my AI assistant. Here's what actually happened. The Situation We were mid-sprint. A new webhook integration kept silently dropping events under specific payload conditions — no exception, no log line, just gone. I'd been staring at the same three files for two hours. The code looked fine. The unit tests passed. My rubber duck was useless. My first instinct...