AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say

Microsoft research shows AI coding tools fall short in key debugging tasks

The Microsoft Research study acknowledges that while today's AI coding tools can boost productivity by suggesting examples, they are limited in actively seeking new information or interacting with code execution when these solutions fail. However, human developers routinely perform these tasks when debugging, highlighting a significant gap in AI's capabilities.Read Entire Article

AI Might Not Be Taking Your Programming Job Just Yet, Says Microsoft Research

Microsoft found many of the world's most popular AI tools, such as those from OpenAI and Anthropic, were generally ineffective at debugging code, even with significant third-party assistance.

AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say

Even when given access to tools, AI agents can’t reliably debug software.

Microsoft study claims AI is still struggling to debug software

AI is great for generating code, but it’s still underperforming when it comes to simple debugging tasks.

AI models still struggle to debug software, Microsoft study shows

Even some of the best AI models today still struggle to debug software, a Microsoft study shows.

I dream about AI subagents; they whisper to me while I'm asleep

In a previous post, I shared about "real context window" sizes and "advertised context window sizes"Claude 3.7’s advertised context window is 200k, but I've noticed that the quality of output clips at the 147k-152k mark. Regardless of which agent is used, when clipping occurs, tool call to tool call invocation starts to failThe short version is that we are in another era of "640kb should be enough for anyone," and folks need to start thinking ab…