AI models struggle debugging Supabase RLS recursion compared to procedural code
Sujay Jayakar · Fullstack-Bench: The Eval for Coding Agents — with Sujay Jayakar, Chief Scientist, Convex · Mar 19, 2025 · at 29:57
Sujay Jayakar discusses findings from the Fullstack-Bench benchmark evaluating AI coding agents across different backend paradigms.
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“The particular example was like RLS rules and Supabase where debugging like an infinite loop for infinite recursion for the RLS rules was something that the models just really struggled with in a way that we didn't see for procedural code.”
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