Reflections on debugging with AI coding agents
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The author reflects on their experience using AI coding agents since late last year, noting the ironic dynamic where AI agents make mistakes that would be unacceptable from a human employee, yet the author's response is to scale up and deploy more agents. They recount a specific instance where they used GPT (around version 5.0 or 5.1) to help debug a UI interaction bug in code that lacked tests and couldn't use git bisect, asking Codex to bisect between date ranges to find the bug's origin.
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My reaction, of course, is to act as if this is great and spin up a thousand agents so they can do even more of that.
I had GPT (maybe 5.0 or 5.1) try to find the source of a bug. Naturally, this code didn't have tests and git bisect wouldn't work.
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