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Why do you expect AIs to learn programming, but not debugging?



1) Debugging is much harder than writing code that works

2) AIs are demonstrably much, much worse at debugging code than writing fresh code

Ex: "Oh, I see the problem! Let me fix that" -> proceeds to create a new bug while not fixing the old one


Debugging is harder for humans, too.




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