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[dee-buhg] / diˈbʌg /


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Artificial-intelligence agents can already help book your air travel, debug your software and plan your workout routines.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 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

It examines information gathered by Siemens and helps customers quickly create, improve and debug complex automation codes and shorten simulation times at their factories and other facilities.

From Reuters Oct. 31, 2023

"Sometimes the easiest way to show somebody how to program or debug something was simply to sit down at the terminal and do it for them," explains Steele.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam

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

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

Imagine that you’re a senior software engineer debugging a system crash.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 15, 2026

He encourages users to engage with the technology as a dynamic co-pilot for tasks ranging from debugging code to planning a vacation.

From MarketWatch Dec. 29, 2025

The county moved quickly to bring the new system online, raising questions about how much time officials allotted for debugging the software and training employees on the new technology.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2025

Node:shotgun debugging, Next:shovelware, Previous:short card, Up:= S = shotgun debugging n.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.




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