as in amending
to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from
the computer program ran much faster after it was debugged
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Recent Examples of debugging
Early-career developers are no longer spending years grinding through boilerplate code, repetitively debugging their own and others’ work, and completing other low-impact tasks because AI removes much of that friction.
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Ameya Kanitkar,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Arize tests and monitors RAG pipelines as well as the agents and applications built on them—debugging and hunting down errors and hallucinations.
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Erik German,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
Whatever used to be fun (coding your first game, say) is replaced by something that’s not (debugging your code).
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
Some are conventional, such as the boards dedicated to debugging code or trading cryptocurrency.
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Mike Dobuski,
ABC News,
4 Feb. 2026
Today developers are positioning agents as a more advanced form of chatbot, capable of autonomously making decisions and completing routine tasks, such as navigating a Web browser or debugging computer code.
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Webb Wright,
Scientific American,
18 Aug. 2025
Ameya Kanitkar,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
Arize tests and monitors RAG pipelines as well as the agents and applications built on them—debugging and hunting down errors and hallucinations.
—
Erik German,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
Whatever used to be fun (coding your first game, say) is replaced by something that’s not (debugging your code).
—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
Some are conventional, such as the boards dedicated to debugging code or trading cryptocurrency.
—
Mike Dobuski,
ABC News,
4 Feb. 2026
Today developers are positioning agents as a more advanced form of chatbot, capable of autonomously making decisions and completing routine tasks, such as navigating a Web browser or debugging computer code.
—
Webb Wright,
Scientific American,
18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for debugging
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Recently, the Illinois Register proposed amending the administrative code to update the definitions of the various alcohol categories solely by their production process — not their alcohol content.
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That’s what’s important, so just amending the contract doesn’t work for me.
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For decades, beauty has focused on correcting the visible effects of stress.
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Fernandez and Iglesias walked around, correcting students and teaching them the proper footing and hand technique.
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The same capabilities rewriting software engineering, medicine and your high schooler’s essay are now trained on construction data.
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Professors are rewriting assignments and grading rubrics.
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In my view, that is especially unfortunate because at the state level, there is bipartisan appetite to address ongoing health insurance barriers, such as by reforming prior authorization.
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As the years pass, the task of reforming Social Security becomes a greater and greater challenge, the Urban Institute said.
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Ahead, design experts share the five most glaring living room flaws, plus advice for remedying them.
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Starmer is historically unpopular in Britain after a series of scandals and policy missteps, with critics accusing him of lacking a political vision for remedying the country’s stagnant post-Brexit economy.
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The populace can only deduce that either Putin is responsible or the elites around him are insulating him from realizing and rectifying the situation.
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Come up with strategies for rectifying the issue, as needed, as well.
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“Debugging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/debugging. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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