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  • emeryberger 3 hours ago

    Debuggers are great, and even better with LLMs! https://github.com/plasma-umass/ChatDBG https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16354

    • ffsm8 an hour ago

      I've only read the introduction, but it's uncanny how everything they described is kinda in the feature bullet list of various static code analysis software that's been around for decades now, i.e. sonar

      Don't get me wrong, I'm sure a great LLM integration has the potential to improve a debugger in your ide.

      The chat interface in which a developer writes prompts would be absolutely garbage though, of that I'm certain

      But if it's able to trace everything until the error occured and then output an analysis for that error, that'd be great. Not sure how realistic that'd be though. Definitely seems way beyond the current capabilities, but let's see how the ecosystem will look in 10 years.