Re:An end to buggy web apps
by techpression on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:34PM
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Nothing about intent. A lot of bugs are correctly implemented but do the wrong thing. Actually in my experience these far outweigh the classic code bugs when it comes to web apps.
I think that is the interesting problem to solve (and would have the highest user impact)
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What sort of bugs do you have in mind? From our perspective there are many kinds of bugs that inhibit UX (and AX) but they can be subtle issues like poorly designed flows. It's hard for an agent to notice or understand these but they are serious problems and we're trying to surface these more readily.
Re:An end to buggy web apps
by techpression on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:13PM
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Something along the lines of
def start_of_week() do "Monday" end
OK thanks, agents definitely like partial implementations like that. When this impacts users we need to be able to observe that and see the bug, then track it back to its source. Weird logic bugs like this benefit from having a good debugger to untangle things and get to the root of the problem, especially when there is tons of code.
At the risk of getting pedantic, should those really be considered bugs?
I think it's important to distinguish between "good design implemented poorly" (bugs) and "bad design implemented well" (design flaws) because the fixes are vastly different. I'm well aware that in a user's head, "it doesn't do what I want" gets filed under "bug," but those of us building the thing can benefit from being more precise.