How I Built an AI-Powered Bug Fixer in Python (That Actually Works)

I Built an AI-Powered Bug Fixer in Python (And It Actually Works) Cover Image: Image Credit: Pexels – Server monitoring scene 1. The Debugging Burnout That Sparked Automation Every developer has that one breaking-point bug. Mine was a production KeyError in a Flask app that passed all development and CI tests. That moment ignited my mission: eliminate manual debugging drudgery. I envisioned a self-healing pipeline with five core stages: Automatic error capture Root cause identification Intelligent code rewriting Automated validation Documented deployment The complete toolkit uses only Python’s ecosystem: AI Engine: GPT-4o (code analysis/rewriting) Monitoring: Watchdog (file system observation) Code …