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This might be good for simple questions or complex ones that have been asked 1000s times online, but it starts to fail a bit for nich stuff:

> 403 error when updating firebase runtime config using service account

This gave me an answer with 4 bullet points:

Re-authenticate, which doesn't make sense because I'm using a service account.

Verify that the service account has the correct permissions. Which is close, but it doesn't really say the permissions I need.

Use the correct account, which is a good tip for sanity checking, but not too useful.

Run firebase in debug mode, which again is a good tip, but doesn't give me the answer immediately.

A search on a normal search engine links me to a github issue with the answer on the most thumbed up comment.

Chatgpt free version gave me a top notch response about missing permission and it even gave me a possible permission to add, although it was not the correct one compared with the github issue.



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