#017: Unlock the Power of AI Debugging: How To Seamlessly Connect Any Language Model With GDB

Imagine this: You need to debug a complex issue. You don't know where to start. You don't want to manually have to step through the program and inspect variables yourself. You go grab a coffee and prepare for a long debugging session.

What if you could simply say, in plain English: "Figure out why this program is crashing and suggest a solution" and receive not just an answer, but a comprehensive breakdown of how to reproduce the issue?

Welcome to the future of debugging - where AI makes it possible to build a debugging assistant.

In this post we are going to implement exactly this. I'll share with you all the code and all the details of this implementation. We will connect GDB to Claude Sonnet and let it do its magic!

What You'll Discover in This Guide

I'm about to show you how to build an agent that will:

1. Start and control GDB sessions autonomously

2. Execute complex GDB commands and interpret their outputs—without you having to remember the syntax

3. Reason about program state and potential bugs like an experienced developer

4. Adapt to observed behavior in real-time and adjust its debugging approach.

Best of all? It scales to any individual use case. The LLM will adopt it’s process until it finds a solution - and you can follow along in real time and view what it is doing.

Let’s get started!