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Replit AI Debugger

The Replit AI Debugger is an AI feature of Replit’s Replit AI that helps users debug their code by identifying errors. Additionally, it provides step-by-step guidance and hints to help users figure out solutions to their coding problems.

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Tips & Tricks

Getting an AI model to generate the correct results can be challenging. Even though Replit AI has context of some files in your replit app, you have to think a little deeper about Replit AI’s perspective and how it understands human language.

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1. Make your questions detailed

Write prompts in fully-formed sentences, and include as much detail and context as you can.

If Replit AI is provided with little information, it has a hard time giving you the results you want

Providing lots of information yields much better results.

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2. Ask follow-up questions

You can chat with Replit AI like a real pair programmer. Try asking follow-up questions by mentioning a previous message.

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3. Modify Replit AI’s Behavior

Telling Replit AI to act like a programmer in a different field could yield better results.

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4. Explain and reference code

Replit AI Chat can be used to explain files in your code. Replit AI tries to be smart and include files you interact with. In this example, we have a simple rickroll website as our HTML.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
    <title>Never gonna give you up</title>
    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
  </head>

  <body>
    <script>location.href = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"</script>
  </body>
</html>

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Limitations

Some of the limitations of Replit AI Chat include:

  • No internet access of knowledge of recent events
  • Occasionally hallucinates and gets line numbers incorrectly
  • Does not know everything about your Replit App
  • Cannot interact with your Replit App (create files, etc)
  • Tries to avoid talking about things that are not related to coding.

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