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AI agents failed to fix three bugs in a Rust terminal multiplexer
A developer building wimux, a Windows terminal multiplexer in Rust, found that AI agents couldn't fix three bugs. The bugs involved display corruption, missing keystrokes, and a crash, all requiring human debugging across different system layers. The fixes were simple once the root causes were identified outside the AI's assumptions.
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The story underscores that AI coding assistants still lack the cross-layer reasoning needed for complex system debugging, making human expertise indispensable.
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