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Facebook has a tool that learns to fix bugs automatically? (changelog.com)
9 points by adamstac 2784 days ago
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If you have alot of copy pasted code this might work great if you fixed a bug in one place but not the 219 other ones.
TL;DR, this is a tool that automatically adds "if (xx == null) return false" before code potentially throwing NullPointerExceptions.
Who fixes Getafix then?