AI Coding Agent Debugger

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Idea

A local debugging agent that runs alongside AI coding assistants (Claude, Copilot, Cursor) to catch errors before they ship to production. It provides full observability into what the AI is doing, fixing the 'PR slop' problem where code looks good but fails in production.

Why this is interesting

The "PR slop" problem is real and getting louder as engineering teams ship more AI-generated code without adequate review tooling — GitHub's own data shows AI-assisted PRs are rising sharply while post-merge bug rates haven't dropped. No clear incumbent owns this exact layer; Cursor and Copilot are the surfaces being observed, not the observers, and existing static analysis tools like SonarQube weren't built for agentic code behavior. The $5k–20k/mo band is plausible for a dev-tools product selling to mid-size engineering teams on a per-seat or per-repo model, though getting above $5k requires either strong enterprise motion or viral adoption among individual devs who expense it. The biggest risk is that the AI coding assistants themselves close this gap natively — Cursor or Anthropic shipping better built-in error detection would eliminate the wedge entirely, and they have every incentive to do so.

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