BeCPP Symposium 2026 (organized by BeCPP): Now on YouTube!

Chris Croft-White - Agentic Time-Travel Debugging

Abstract:

Time-travel debugging is a powerful technique to dive deep into the execution of your applications, providing visibility simply not available any other way and enabling rapid diagnosis of issues as well as understanding of unfamiliar code bases. With the AI revolution going on today, hallucinations are a major concern and limiting factor for adoption. Combining these two technologies enables us to give the AI Agent all the information it could possibly want about what happened in your application. This enables it to both investigate when something goes wrong to develop a hypothesis, but also a way to validate that hypothesis, and iterate on it as needed until the AI Agent is able to verifiably explain what happened and why.

About the Speaker:

Chris Croft-White is a Staff Solutions Architect at Undo, where he works at the intersection of debugging technology and developer productivity. With a career spanning field applications engineering, security, and technical pre-sales, he brings a practitioner's perspective to the challenge of helping engineering teams ship reliable software faster. Chris is currently focused on the emerging field of agentic debugging, exploring how AI can move beyond code generation to become a genuine partner in root cause analysis and defect resolution. He writes and speaks on practical approaches to integrating AI into real-world debugging workflows, cutting through the hype to find what actually works.