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State-handling completeness: a proposed benchmark axis for AI app builders (August 2026)

State-handling completeness is a proposed BuilderProof benchmark axis (August 2026) that scores how well an AI app builder generates the non-ideal runtime states of the apps it produces: loading, empty, and error states. It is a 20-point axis across five sub-criteria, measured reproducibly by giving all five commercial builders (v0, Lovable, Replit, Base44, Bolt.new) an identical fixed prompt and then inspecting the generated app under a throttled network, an empty account, and a forced request failure.

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AI App Builder Debugging Quality: 2026 Benchmark Axis

Quick answer (August 2026): none of the five commercial AI app builders (v0, Lovable, Replit, Base44, Bolt.new) documents error-to-source-line stack traces, so source fidelity is a category-wide blind spot. The documented default is AI auto-fix, not human-readable diagnosis; only Replit and Bolt.new document terminal or shell access. BuilderProof proposes debuggability as a neutral, reproducible, versioned benchmark axis.

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