AI assistants are optimized to answer "how do I stop this error," not "why does my system produce this state"
This story is from 2026-09-13. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.
Given a stack trace, the most locally justified response an AI assistant can give is a fix that makes the specific crashing line stop crashing. That's a real, defensible answer to a real question. It's just a different question from "why does this condition exist in my system at all," and that seco…
Read the full story at r/artificial ↗
Timeline · 1 report
- 2026-09-13 02:01 · r/artificial
AI assistants are optimized to answer "how do I stop this error," not "why does my system produce this state"