Show HN: How I built a debugging tool, and the agent, using it, found bugs in it
This story might never have happened, even though I'd been carrying the idea for a debugger for a long time. But one day a trigger appeared that was strong enough that I set the project aside to build the debugger and never suffer like that again.A bit of backstory: I'm building a Platform for AI-solution developers, so anyone can come in and work on their own startups in a comfortable environment. There's a lot of work ahead to make that happen.I should mention that I'm building this entire project on principle using agentic coding.
- ▪This story might never have happened, even though I'd been carrying the idea for a debugger for a long time.
- ▪But one day a trigger appeared that was strong enough that I set the project aside to build the debugger and never suffer like that again.A bit of backstory: I'm building a Platform for AI-solution developers, so anyone can come in and work
- ▪There's a lot of work ahead to make that happen.I should mention that I'm building this entire project on principle using agentic coding.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064283 |
| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:44:25 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-27T04:44:29.073Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-27T04:44:29.073Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | SMXJW1qAQdtM |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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This story might never have happened, even though I'd been carrying the idea for a debugger for a long time. There was no trigger. But one day a trigger appeared that was strong enough that I set the project aside to build the debugger and never suffer like that again.A bit of backstory: I'm building a Platform for AI-solution developers, so anyone can come in and work on their own startups in a comfortable environment. There's a lot of work ahead to make that happen.I should mention that I'm building this entire project on principle using agentic coding.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.