[layer8]

As long as their reasoning capabilities for the general case (system 2 thinking) remains limited, trial and error will only get them so far.

[singularity2001]

unless the "try again stage" incorporates the results of a google search for the error message of the api

[literallyroy]

The Google search that would be returning results from human programmers…?

So given time the AI could no longer debug new software as there would be no programmers only assistants.