Show HN: Letting LLMs Run a Debugger

1. ChatDBG

   1 6 874 8.6 C++

   ChatDBG - AI-assisted debugging. Uses AI to answer 'why'

   

   Nice UI. We started on a project that does this about 2 years ago. ChatDBG (https://github.com/plasma-umass/ChatDBG), downloaded about 70K times to date. It integrates into debuggers like `lldb`, `gdb`, and `pdb` (the Python debugger). For C/C++, it also leverages a language server, which makes a huge difference. You can also chat with it. We wrote a paper about it, should be published shortly in a major conference near you (https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16354). One of the coolest things we found is that the LLM can leverage real-world knowledge to diagnose errors; for example, it successfully debugged a problem where the number of bootstrap samples was too low.

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3. llm-debugger-vscode-extension

   2 1 323 8.7 TypeScript

   VSCode extension that demonstrates the use of large language models (LLMs) for active debugging of programs

   

4. claude-debugs-for-you

   3 2 201 8.2 TypeScript

   Enable any LLM (e.g. Claude) to interactively debug any language for you via MCP and a VS Code Extension

   

   Nice! I recently had and built the same idea using MCP (in order to be client / LLM agnostic) and VS Code (DAP would be even better, but haven't tried tackling it).

   https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/claude-debugs-for-you

5. debug-graph

   4 2 6 8.3 TypeScript

   A vscode extension to see the history of your current call path, along with the ability to inspect variables while debugging

   

   Hei this is lovely,

   i created a extension to help me debug a while back [0], and i thought of this (ai integration) for a long time, but did not have the time to tackle this.

   Thank you so much for sharing!

   I might need to add this approach to my extension as well!

   [0] https://github.com/K0IN/debug-graph

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