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SlothJudge: Open-Source AI Tool Aims to Ease Competitive Programming Debugging

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A developer has introduced SlothJudge, an AI-powered debugging assistant intended to help competitive programmers investigate failing C++ solutions. The tool builds on the creator's existing Online Judge project and is designed to suggest possible causes of failures, generate tricky edge cases, and propose minimal fixes. Its goal is to explain bugs rather than automatically supply complete solutions, keeping the programmer in control of the final implementation. The planned system uses a web frontend, a Node.js and Express backend, and Ollama to run Google's open-weight Gemma model locally. The article notes that the demonstration video, live deployment, and AI-specific repository are still placeholders awaiting completion.

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