I Built a Bot That Reproduces GitHub Bugs Automatically — Here's What Broke (and What I Learned)

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Posted on Aug 28

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The problem

As a maintainer, even a solo one on a small project, the most time-consuming part of fixing a bug usually isn't writing the fix. It's reproducing it. Someone files an issue, the description is vague, and you spend twenty minutes just trying to get your machine into the same broken state theirs is in before you can even start debugging.

I Built a Bot That Reproduces GitHub Bugs Automatically — Here's What Broke (and What I Learned)

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