This talk introduces our(OSS Integral Institute Co., Ltd.) experience of vibe-debugging LibreOffice using Cursor AI Editor/Visual Studio Code Copilot/Gemini CLI. We use LLMs and AI agents to locate the logic that contains the bug and help developing potential patches to properly fix the bug.
We'll also share our discovery on:
- The strengths and weaknesses of using AI agent tools in debugging
- Which kinds of problems that AI agents will be helpful, and which kinds well... not so much
- How to provide up-to-date context to AI agent to acquire better results
- Which AI agent tools are found to be functional, and several cases that those do not
and noteworthy techniques while doing such tasks.
We'll also talk about the bugs we fixed/proposed patches using these tools.
This talk is recommended for novice contributors that are looking for techniques to simplify the bug hunting process in LibreOffice/LibreOffice Online. This session will be held in English.