Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

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Post by Garbage » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 7:29 AM UTC

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
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Post by cyberjunkie » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 8:39 AM UTC

Still can't stand Chrome.

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Post by mw888 » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC

AI critique often funnels itself into a narrow bucket: creating code blindly with AI is bad. That's easy to grant.

Adversarial testing, checking developer assumptions, refactor suggestions, small dev tools and even some guided coding all sit on the other side of the spectrum of what you can do with coding and AI. For larger and larger codebases even simple things like tracing dependencies or behavior might be greatly aided.

And the critiques reserved for that narrow bucket on the other end, blindly generating code, are too easily conflated with the rest.

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Post by geek_at » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 8:47 AM UTC

cyberjunkie wrote: post #2

Still can't stand Chrome.

won't forgive them either for making it harder to filter out ads

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Post by truncate » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 8:47 AM UTC

Not that I don't believe its possible to fix a lot of bugs, I also wonder what the actual dynamic was. Were the people in team working much more than usual as well? Given its Google, I wouldn't be surprised if there was an "internal push" to fix more bugs over next X sprints so that they can publish this blog and some manager can show impact and AI adaption to his superior.

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Post by ed_mercer » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 8:50 AM UTC

AI meaning Claude or Codex, because Gemini is a laughingstock for coding. Also Gemini was mentioned only once in the article.

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Post by heiogalma » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 8:51 AM UTC

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Post by greenknight » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 8:51 AM UTC

ed_mercer wrote: post #6

AI meaning Claude or Codex, because Gemini is a laughingstock for coding. Also Gemini was mentioned only once in the article.

The Gemini (and Claude / Codex) that we have, is much different to their internal models / harnesses.....

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Post by lilerjee » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 8:52 AM UTC

More important thing:

Do you import new more bugs?

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Post by kotaKat » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 8:52 AM UTC

Seems like they have enough AI they could find a way to put ManifestV2 back into the browser and fix things we actually wanted instead of putting more bullshit "AI improvements" we didn't?