debug
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Software developers, for instance, routinely use AI tools to generate boilerplate code, test functions and debug routines—tasks that once consumed hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
“We’ll debug that later,” Zuckerberg said on stage after he couldn’t answer the WhatsApp call using the wristband and glasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
That should help debug systems and also benefit safety, the researchers say: If an AI is planning something dangerous, a human operator can tell and can intervene.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 8, 2024
Bard will be able to code in 20 programming languages including Java, C++ and Python, and can also help debug and explain code to users, Google said on Friday.
From Reuters ● Apr. 21, 2023
The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked on in a hurry.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
It writes academic essays and fairy tales, tells jokes, explains scientific concepts and composes and debugs computer code.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 28, 2023
An engineer debugs an instrument at the China Spallation Neutron Source in Dongguan; scientists use accelerators such as this and the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility to study materials’ behaviour.Credit:
From Nature ● Mar. 19, 2019
A spokesman at Hasbro said the company expected that figure to rise as it debugs the game over the coming weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have downloaded it, debugged it and redeployed it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The team has now synthesized and debugged all sixteen yeast chromosomes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2023
It will be “a profound development in spaceflight if and when Starship is debugged and operational,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 15, 2023
These are not programs with single-line instructions that can be debugged easily.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
The only exception was that each team was permitted one laptop for work on the project, but it had to be handed over to be scanned, debugged, and approved for use.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
Many of the mundane, routine tasks, like debugging code, can be done by AI.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Anthropic says Fable 5 is exceptionally good at writing and debugging software code, answering complex research questions and analyzing images.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Apple’s own benchmarks show the M5 running a 30-billion-parameter model—capable of drafting legal briefs, debugging code, synthesizing research—in under three seconds on a standard MacBook Pro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
Lured by a better price and shinier features, Riverside, Inyo and Monterey counties made the switch to Genasys after spending about a year testing, debugging and training staff on the software.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025
An intermittent or difficult-to-reproduce problem that has failed to respond to neglect or shotgun debugging.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
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