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Oct 13, 2026 · R&D Management

Debugging AI-Generated Code: The 'Facts First' Method That Catches Agent Hallucinations

The article presents a debugging methodology for AI-generated code based on three production incidents, advocating a constraint-satisfaction approach where agents collect immutable facts before forming hypotheses, use control comparisons to isolate strong signals, and verify against all evidence to avoid hallucinated fixes.