Microsoft found many of the world's most popular AI tools, such as those from OpenAI and Anthropic, were generally ineffective at debugging code, even with significant third-party assistance.

GDB is the standard debugger for GNU systems. It allows you to inspect the internal state of a program while it’s running or ...

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google ...

Debugging is a very important part of writing a good algorithm or computer program and it works best when we check for bugs as we go along, rather than at the end. Let's think about an everyday ...

There are few areas where AI has seen more robust deployment than the field of software development. From "vibe" coding to ...

The Microsoft Research study acknowledges that while today's AI coding tools can boost productivity by suggesting examples, ...

Artificial intelligence can code but it can't debug says Microsoft after observing how large language models performed when ...

The library that needs to run on the host Arduino slows down the original program significantly. But for more complex programs, the tradeoff with powerful debugging tools may be worth it until ...

But it still useful to have access to at least some of your program’s internal state. Of course, Arduino has promised full debugging soon. We’ve even seen one Arduino debugging another via ...

One of the research da Microsoft Research has revealed that agents of artificial intelligence (AI) – even those powered by ...