Debugging
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
Latent Space 
the Neon Show 
Big Technology
5 statements about Debugging, every show
Sankar: Data engineers spend roughly 80% of time debugging
“In fact, like, 80% of time of data engineers were spent on debugging things.”
Wang: Agentic AI Inverts Research Time From Coding to Debugging
“We used to spend lots of time coding, a little bit of time just debugging, but now we let the agent do most of the coding, but we spend most of time debugging, which seems to be definitely interesting to me”
Marcus: AI coding assistants regurgitate public code but cannot debug software
“That's their sweet spot is regurgitation. And so Yeah, they can build the stuff that's out there, but if you want to code things in the real world, you usually want to code something that's new, and these systems have a lot of problems with that. And another r…”
Marcus: No established methodology exists for debugging chatbots or autonomous vehicles
“None of these chatbot systems are well-debugged. Nobody knows how to debug them, in fact. And so both the problem with GPT-III and with driverless cars is we don't actually have a methodology even for debugging it.”