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AI Can’t Debug. You’re Fired Anyway.

A thread 🧵

There is a huge push at work to use AI, and to share our individual learnings.
suspect they are looking to use AI to layoff sections of programming staffs at the first given opportunity, despite the reassurances given by our CTO's that AI “will just make us all more productive”.

Stop Right Now, Thank You Very Much.
“We still need the human touch”.

Because while AI is now being trained to poke around pdb and take a tentative peek at variable values like it’s dipping its toe into the shallow end, it’s not great.

According to Microsoft,

“even with debugging tools, our simple prompt-based agent rarely solves more than half of the SWE-bench Lite issues.”