Using AI to fix bugs faster — without breaking things

At Iftii we’ve delivered more than 3,000 projects in PHP, JavaScript, Rust and Lua. That’s a lot of bug reports. AI helps us get through them much faster — but only since we stopped treating it like a chat window.

A chat window isn’t a process

If a developer pastes a random snippet into an AI tool with no logs and no context, the “fix” often breaks something else. So we wrote prompt templates that always include the error, the relevant code and the rules the fix has to follow.

Give the AI real context

// What we send with every bug
{
  "service": "order-fulfillment-worker",
  "runtime": "PHP 8.x / JS worker",
  "rules": "No breaking database changes; keep the idempotency key",
  "check": "Run the regression tests before staging"
}

We ask for a small, focused change plus the steps to test it. Small changes are easy to review and easy to undo.

Every change still gets checked

Nothing AI writes goes live on its own. Every patch goes through automated checks, tests and a review by a senior developer before it reaches staging or production.

Want to set up something similar for your team? Let’s talk.