Blomfield: Major AI coding tools will soon auto-ingest error logs
Tom Blomfield · How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator · Apr 25, 2025 · at 9:22
Tom Blomfield (General Partner at Y Combinator) explains debugging best practices when using AI coding assistants and predicts future automation in developer tooling.
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“It's so powerful that pretty soon I actually expect all the major coding tools to be able to ingest these errors Without humans having to copy paste. If you think about it, our value being the copy paste machine is, is kind of weird, right? We're like, we're leaving the thinking to LLM, but I think that copy pasting is going to go out the window and these LLM tools are going to be able to tail logs or, you know spin up a headless browser and inspect the kind of JavaScript errors.”
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