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Developer Creates 'Regenerative' AI Program That Debugs Python Code


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AI-generated image of Wolverine programming on a computer

An AI-generated and human composited image of "Wolverine programming on a computer."

A developer who goes by "BioBootloader" used GPT-4 to create a program called Wolverine that debugs Python programs.

"Run your scripts with it and when they crash, GPT-4 edits them and explains what went wrong," BioBootloader writes in a tweet that accompanies a demonstration video. "Even if you have many bugs it'll repeatedly rerun until everything is fixed."

"It runs it, it sees the crash, but then it goes and talks to GPT-4 to try to figure out how to fix it," he says in the video. GPT-4 returns an explanation for the program's errors, shows the changes that it tries to make, then re-runs the program. Upon seeing new errors, GPT-4 fixes the code again, and then it runs correctly.

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