Squash all the bugs

Hi, hi, hi! Happy Tuesday! In today’s digest, I’m covering a YC-backed tool that uses AI to automatically review code and squash bugs. But before that…

Here are some headlines: 

💾 SanDisk has launched a line of Pokémon-branded SD cards. 

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🦕 Mozilla has a brand new, prehistoric-inspired logo.

Bugs are the bane of a developer’s life. You’re slinging code left and right, but when you finally compile and run your new app, you get a list of errors the length of your arm. Sorry if I made your stress levels rise there. 

Bugs can really stop you in your tracks. Within an instant, you go from shipping to backtracking on your progress to fix errors. It’s not ideal, but thankfully, we have the technology to make it easier. 

Ellipsis is a YC-backed AI tool that automates bug detection and squashing. It runs as a GitHub bot that automatically performs deep, LLM-powered code reviews, fills in PR descriptions, and can even fix bugs. Once you open a pull request, you will get an AI Code Review. As you write code, Ellipsis will update the summary and review any changes. If a bug pops up, you can squash it with a single click. 

How does it work? When Ellipsis finds a problem, it'll leave a comment on the offending line, just like a human would. Then, you can tag Ellipsis to have it implement the fix. This allows you to write working, tested code right from the GitHub UI. It can catch logical errors, anti-patterns, security issues, spelling & grammar mistakes, documentation drift, and more.

So, if you’re tired of the never-ending battle between shipping and bug squashing, Ellipsis might be worth a try. The team is currently offering a 7-day free trial if you want to check it out. 

Hamming AI is a tool for testing your AI-powered voice agents against thousands of simultaneous phone calls to detect bugs and squash them. The team shouted out eleven products that were critical to building Hamming. Let’s check out some: 

Railway provides cloud infrastructure for building, shipping, and monitoring apps. The Hamming team loves it for its dev-friendly experience. 

“Railway is the most DevX-friendly infra platform we've used. David Banys and their team are super responsive and solve any problems we encounter.”

Notion is one of the most popular productivity and documentation tools for teams and individuals. Hamming uses it to keep track of meetings, product specs, and more. 

“Notion is a GOAT product. It helps us keep track of all our meeting notes, product specs, and eng specs. It even acts as our CRM.”

Sunsama is like if Google Calendar and Trello had a baby. The Hamming team loves the fact it integrates with Linear. 

“It's the best task list/calendar in one. We LOVE the integration with Linear. We can pull tasks from Linear into Sunsama, and as we progress on them, it also updates Linear statuses. ”

If you want to see what products other teams are shouting out, check out the shoutouts leaderboard here. 

DEVELOPER TOOLS

Fleak AI lets you build complex model chaining data workflows in minutes with a dynamic API builder.

Evidently is an open-source framework to evaluate, test and monitor AI-powered apps.

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

ThinkPost is an interactive split-screen block-based note-taking, diagramming, and brainstorming tool. It features a text editor, drawing editor, code editor, and more.

Presence is a menu bar application designed to enhance your awareness of the passing time. Unlike other productivity tools, it does not enforce specific breaks or focus periods

DESIGN TOOLS

MolyPix lets you generate graphic designs on the fly just from a prompt. Type what you want and from there you can edit it to your liking.

PET TOOLS

Wiglo is a gamified dog parenting app that helps you manage daily care, training, health tracking, and reminders for your dog.