The Higher-Ranked AI Fix Failed. The Lower-Ranked One Passed.
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Confidence Numbers Weren't Tracking Correctness. Here's What We Built Instead. Two fixes came back from the same call last week, ranked by confidence like they always are. The higher-ranked one failed the moment we ran it against the real bug. The lower-ranked one passed. We'd been trusting that ranking, the same way anyone reading a DebugAI response trusts it: a bigger number means the model is more sure. So we stopped trusting it and started checking. Two weeks ago we found three bugs in our…
1Key Takeaways
- Confidence Numbers Weren't Tracking Correctness.
- Two fixes came back from the same call last week, ranked by confidence like they always are.
- The higher-ranked one failed the moment we ran it against the real bug.
- We'd been trusting that ranking, the same way anyone reading a DebugAI response trusts it: a bigger number means the model is more sure.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that confidence Numbers Weren't Tracking Correctness.
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