<![CDATA[Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful.]]>Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. It's just fucking magic incantations

Did you use this specific super power?
Did you ask it to explain itself?
Did you read it's thought process to see where it's getting overwhelmed?

No because none of that is real. It does not do any of those things. It confabulates statistically probable text, and it does that over and over until a control loop stops asking for more. That is the whole entire thing.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/05951c6e-7c95-4e11-9bd1-ab892ea7497b/watching-people-try-to-debug-coding-agent-behavior-is-so-unbelievably-painful.RSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 16:35:33 GMTTue, 19 May 2026 05:54:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. on Tue, 19 May 2026 07:12:34 GMT]]>@jenniferplusplus It's the same thought process as using a slot machine, just a thousand times worse.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/properlypurple/statuses/116599996737482177https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/properlypurple/statuses/116599996737482177Tue, 19 May 2026 07:12:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. on Tue, 19 May 2026 07:10:48 GMT]]>@jenniferplusplus

But I wrote "DO NOT HALLUCINATE" at the end of the prompt

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/pikesley/statuses/116599989754715102https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/pikesley/statuses/116599989754715102Tue, 19 May 2026 07:10:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. on Tue, 19 May 2026 06:59:19 GMT]]>@jenniferplusplus you cannot control the stochastic parrot's random number generator

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/eniko/statuses/116599944603188963https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/eniko/statuses/116599944603188963Tue, 19 May 2026 06:59:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. on Tue, 19 May 2026 06:38:04 GMT]]>@jenniferplusplus yes, exactly this, and exactly why it's burning down the forests. just ... a supercharged Monte Carlo routine

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/draNgNon/statuses/116599861061241603https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/draNgNon/statuses/116599861061241603Tue, 19 May 2026 06:38:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. on Tue, 19 May 2026 06:32:18 GMT]]>@abstractcode what about the AI's ineffable, immortal soul dot emdee?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/rotopenguin/statuses/116599838383995537https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/rotopenguin/statuses/116599838383995537Tue, 19 May 2026 06:32:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. on Tue, 19 May 2026 06:00:27 GMT]]>@jenniferplusplus "I guess this art looks kinda like what I asked for. Close enough, anyway."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://olifant.social/users/oli/statuses/01KRZD4EN5SZ706V3VB3CEVBDDhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://olifant.social/users/oli/statuses/01KRZD4EN5SZ706V3VB3CEVBDDTue, 19 May 2026 06:00:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Watching people try to "debug" coding agent behavior is so unbelievably painful. on Tue, 19 May 2026 05:59:49 GMT]]>@jenniferplusplus As I'm fond of saying, you did not 'wear down' the AI until it gave you the right answer. It wore you down, because it's inexhaustible, until you were finally willing to accept its answer.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://olifant.social/users/oli/statuses/01KRZD3BTHNXF0KYCC6VGQW5H4https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://olifant.social/users/oli/statuses/01KRZD3BTHNXF0KYCC6VGQW5H4Tue, 19 May 2026 05:59:49 GMT