Coding agents often miss crashes and misread changes that prevent them

Tests on 934 paired source trees show that spotting crash-related code does not reliably translate into predicting whether an input will cause a failure.

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Chenxi Huang · Haonan Wang · Jinghe Zhang · Aleksandr Nogikh · Franjo Ivančić · Petros Maniatis · +4 more

Columbia University · Google Inc. · Google DeepMind

Research Digest··2 min read
Huang and colleagues tested four coding agents on source-code versions that produce opposite crash outcomes for the same input.

The authors built SysRB, a benchmark of 934 source-tree pairs from the Linux kernel and projects covered by OSS-Fuzz.

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