SE Radio 693: Mark Williamson on AI-Assisted Debugging

SE Radio 693: Mark Williamson on AI-Assisted Debugging

Author: team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) November 6, 2025 Duration: 54:12
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Mark Williamson, CTO of Undo, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to discuss AI-assisted debugging. The conversation is structured around three main objectives:

  • understanding how AI can serve as a debugging assistant; 
  • examining AI-powered debugging tools;
  • exploring whether AI debuggers can independently find and fix bugs.

Mark highlights how AI can support debugging with its ability to analyze vast amounts of data, narrow down issues, and even generate tests. From there, the discussion turns to AI debugging tools, with a particular look at ChatDBG's strengths and limitations, with a peek at time travel debugging. In the final segment, they consider several real-world scenarios and evaluate the feasibility and practicality of AI acting autonomously in debugging.

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