FUTURE
The Ethics of Autonomous Debugging Agents
Binary Ethicist
Core_Engineer
Date
DEC 28, 2025
Time
9 min
Who Owns the Code?
As AI agents move from writing boilerplate to fixing security vulnerabilities, we face a new dilemma: traceability. If an AI "fixes" a database race condition but introduces a subtle logic flaw that costs a company millions, where does the liability lie?
The "Black Box" Logic
We are seeing cases where AI agents find "hacks" that work but are incomprehensible to human engineers. We must enforce strict "Explainable AI" policies in our CI/CD pipelines.