I Don't Fix Bugs Anymore.

Bugs are annoying. You spend weeks building something, miss one weird scenario, and boom: bug. I'm fine with those. I pick a few four-letter words, fix it like a good boy, check in, test, deploy.

Sometimes though, a bug is a regression - meaning, it broke because of something else you (or someone else) added. In other words, not your fault... those genuinely suck.

Here's how I handle them now.

I open a chat with my OpenClaw bot on Teams and describe the bug. Sometimes I just paste the email from the user who reported it. Then I add a little insider context so it doesn't waste time hunting in the wrong place. That step matters more than it sounds.

From there, the bot:

• reads our technical and user documentation
• reads the source code and finds the problem
• fixes it and checks in the change
• pings me that a Pull Request is ready

For non-developers: a Pull Request neatly bundles up the changes so a reviewer can read them and either approve or reject.

I read every diff. Once I approve, the bot deploys the fix to our user acceptance environment, where I test it myself. When it checks out, I deploy to production manually, usually after hours.

The bot does the digging and the typing. I keep the judgment calls and the final say on production.

If you aren't doing this yet, it's worth an afternoon (or two). Forget the ROI and cost-savings talk. What you get back is time, to work on the things you actually want to work on.

This is the way.