News Software engineer taught Microsoft Copilot to analyze Windows crash dumps

[Admin]

Brings crash dump analysis into the AI era by integrating GitHub Copilot with WinDBG.

Software engineer taught Microsoft Copilot to analyze Windows crash dumps : Read more

 

[jp7189]

This is a perfect use for AI.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Is absolutely astonishing Microsoft didn't develop this as part of their Copilot Pro subscription model.

 

[warezme]

Microsoft would have tried to wrap it inside another bloated database.

 

[artk2219]

This is one of those area's that most definitely would benefit from AI, its actually almost begging for it. Its kind of crazy its taken this long for anyone to think of it.

 

[DS426]

Microsoft and others are almost certainly working on paid versions of AI debuggers, so... love it when someone comes along and releases a free, open tool to crack a nut that even giants haven't done yet. One person. Free.

Great practical use for AI and sorely needed.

 

[Loadedaxe]

Is absolutely astonishing Microsoft didn't develop this as part of their Copilot Pro subscription model.

Microsoft systems have long struggled with effective crash diagnostics. Despite decades of development, users are often left without meaningful insight into system failures, a reflection of persistent shortcomings in error reporting and recovery mechanisms.

That doesn't make them any money and wasting money on R&D for it is a big no no. Investors can not have that.

 

[t3t4]

I don't know anything about programming and never will, that's what all this ai crap should do for me. But I need one of these bots to sit and scan error logs not dumps. I'm no good at perusing through the event logs and trying to make any sense of that noise! This ---> (%%1058) Whatever that is it ain't meant for humans!

 

[cesteban]

You seriously need to work on getting your terminology straight. What that guy made was an MCP Server not a LLM. The LLM he's using wasn't trained to do this specifically, and he isn't really open sourcing anything new other than a wrapper around existing LLMs. The LLMs are what execute the function calling under the hood; he did nothing more than just give them access to existing tools. Am getting so tired of all this over hyping nonsense and constant misinformation being spread. Do better please. If you don't understand something you should ask AI to explain it for you, but don't make it out to be something it's not.