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The Debugging Decay Index: Rethinking Debugging Strategies for Code LLMs — mentioned by mhher

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:41:14 GMT

Most AI coding assistants are fundamentally broken. Tools like Claude Code and OpenCode eagerly load 10k+ tokens of monolithic system prompts into a single context window before you even type. This guarantees context amnesia and destroys local inference speeds. I built late to fix this. It’s a single-binary Go/BubbleTea TUI built around a subagent orchestrator pattern. The main prompt is strictly ~100 lines. The orchestrator routes tasks to transient subagents with isolated context windows, explicitly preventing the "Debugging Decay" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18403) and context pollution…

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The Debugging Decay Index: Rethinking Debugging Strategies for Code LLMs — mentioned by mhher

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:54:04 GMT

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13914 Among many more of them with similar results. This one gives a 39% drop in performance. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18403 This one gives 60-80% after multiple turns.

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The Debugging Decay Index: Rethinking Debugging Strategies for Code LLMs — mentioned by dudeinhawaii

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:24:50 GMT

LLMS like Opus, Gemini 3, and GPT-5.2/5.1-Codex-max, are phenomenal for coding and have only very recently crossed that gap between being "eh" and being quite fantastic to let operate on their own agentically. The major trade-off being a fairly expensive cost. I ran up $200 per provider after running through 'pro' tier limits during a single week of hacking over the holidays. Unfortunately, it's still surprisingly easy for these models to fall into really stupid maintainability traps. For instance today, Opus adds a feature to the code that needs access to a db. It fails because the db…

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The Debugging Decay Index: Rethinking Debugging Strategies for Code LLMs — HN submission

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:21:24 GMT

The Debugging Decay Index: Rethinking Debugging Strategies for Code LLMs

2 points; 2 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.