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Causal tracing resolves ambiguous debugging questions by generating multiple competing explanations, gathering evidence for and against each, and ranking them by strength. It concludes with a discriminating probe to distinguish leading hypotheses for intermittent anomalies.

Investigate multi-causal bugs using evidence-driven causal tracing. Frame the question, generate at least two explanations, collect supporting and contradicting evidence for each, rank them, and execute a discriminating probe to identify the true cause.

Rank competing hypotheses during performance investigation by gathering supporting and contradicting evidence for each explanation, then sorting them by strength. This evidence-driven ranking prevents bias and prioritizes explanations with the strongest supporting data.

Use multi-hypothesis causal tracing when debugging multi-causal or intermittent anomalies where uncertainty must be preserved. It prevents premature conclusions by evaluating competing explanations rather than settling on the first guess during complex investigations.

Find a discriminating probe by first generating and ranking competing explanations with evidence for and against each. The resulting experiment or question distinguishes the leading hypotheses to finalize the investigation.