ChatGPT helped me debug — but I still don’t fully trust it

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to share a quick experience I had recently while using ChatGPT to debug a Python script. I was dealing with a weird edge case in a function that manipulated dates — nothing too fancy, but the logic had to account for leap years and month-end behavior.

I pasted the function into ChatGPT, explained what I expected it to do, and it gave a pretty convincing explanation of what might be wrong. The thing is: its suggestion sounded logical and well-written… but it wasn’t actually correct.

After double-checking, I realized the bug was in a totally different part of the code — something ChatGPT didn’t flag at all. It kind of reminded me that while ChatGPT is a great rubber duck (and often points me in the right direction), it can be confidently wrong, especially with code involving date/time or edge cases.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Any strategies for double-checking its output or getting better-quality code reviews from it?

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