{
  "id": 14685003,
  "title": "I trust AI code that crashes more than AI code that works, and 66% of developers seem to agree",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/i-trust-ai-code-that-crashes-more-than-ai-code-that-works-and-66-of",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-15T11:30:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "XDA Developers",
    "slug": "xda-developers",
    "url": "https://www.xda-developers.com/ai-coding-debugging-42-percent-of-week/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A recent survey of 300 senior engineering leaders reveals that despite AI coding tools speeding up code production, release cycles remain unchanged. Debugging takes up 42% of developers' time, with 79% of leaders believing AI-generated code is almost right but not perfect. This leads to 35% of AI-generated code reaching production without full understanding, causing 81% of incidents or outages in the past six months. Trust in AI output is low, with only 6.6% of developers trusting it for important decisions. To mitigate issues, developers suggest having AI explain bugs before fixing them and writing failing tests first. The survey, conducted by Undo, a debugging tool company, primarily involved developers working on mission-critical systems in finance, networking, and chip design.",
  "summary": "79% of engineering leaders noticed the same thing.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}