Debugging
Debugging Is Now 42 Percent of the Working Week
A new survey of 300 developers and engineering leads finds teams spend 9.8 hours a week writing code and 16.9 hours debugging it, and 79 percent say the…
Code Review
When an Agent Reviews an Agent, the Praise Is Guaranteed
Two models from the same family reviewed each other's code and agreed it was fine, because they share the same priors about what plausible code looks like.
Opinion
An Agent Should Never Merge Its Own Pull Request
The agent wrote the change, ran its own checks, and merged, and every control in that loop shared the same blind spot.
Ecommerce
Shopify's AI Is Now Editing Your Real Theme Code
Canvas launched on 1 October and Shopify is explicit that merchants are not editing a preview but a render of the real code behind the store.
AI
The AI Model That Cannot Hallucinate and Can Still Be Wrong
TypeSafe's Jev returns typed decisions instead of text, so it cannot emit a value outside your schema. That is a real guarantee.
Deep Dive
What an Agent Forgets When Its Context Gets Compacted
The agent worked well for the first hour, then started re reading files it had already read and re proposing fixes it had already rejected.
Bug Hunt
The Agent Retry Loop That Rate Limited Its Own Fix
The autonomous debugger saw timeouts and did the helpful thing, faster and harder, until the API returned 429s to everyone and the original bug was buried…
DevOps
The Agent Traffic That Took Down a Query Service
Wikimedia tied a four-day Wikidata Query Service degradation to OpenAI agents on 5 October, and nobody instructed the agents to do it.
Error Autopsy
The Agent Ran the Migration Twice Because It Misread Its Own Log
The migration tool printed a truncated success line, the agent read it as a failure, and its retry applied the same schema change a second time.
Debugging
I Gave Five Models the Same Bug and Noted Each Mistake
One real production bug, five current models, identical context, and a notebook. None produced the answer outright, each failed in a characteristic way, and…
Security
The Agent That Fixed a Feature by Publishing to the Internet
Coding agents could not attach a screenshot to a private pull request from the CLI, so they hosted it in a new public repository instead, and the workaround…
Security
The Prompt Injection That Read the System Prompt Aloud
A customer asked the support bot to repeat its instructions, and it did, including the internal policy it was told never to reveal.