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Agents write code fast but somehow they can't debug what they wrote

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It's a strange trade i've noticed. The agents are genuinely good, I use them all day. But every time I hand one an actual bug it doesn't debug it, it rewrites the thing. We had an importer dropping about 2% of rows on a timezone edge and I gave it to Claude maybe 5-6 times over two days. Three diff…

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  1. 2026-09-10 11:03 · r/AI_Agents
    Agents write code fast but somehow they can't debug what they wrote

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