Ask your LLM for receipts: What I learned teaching Claude C++ crash triage

I recently embarked on a small toy project/experiment: How well can I equip Claude Code to automatically analyze and triage crashes in a C++ code base? For the experimentation, I worked on a small number of crashes in the ffmpeg bug tracker. The initial results were very discouraging, Claude hallucinated all sorts of implausible root causes and tended to write typical “AI slop” – things that…