[digitaltrees]

Because I wanted the full ide on my iPhone so I can code while away from my laptop doing fun stuff with my kids. And I don’t like the Claude codex fire and forget approach.

The ide I built has a full terminal, file system, git integration and AI agent. It uses a private cloud Linux container that is persistent so I can install packages and do anything I want from any phone, computer or browser. It’s amazing that we live in a time where we can build custom software for ourselves just for fun. I will never have to worry about cursor or vs changing getting bought and moth balled like Atom (my favorite ide). I now own my tool and will forever.

[fud101]

Literally will break overnight when some key dependency changes. Your LLM might not be able to fix it. Then i guess you regenerate it all from scratch? Sounds exhausting tbh.

[digitaltrees]

I’ve built enterprise software for 10 years with multiple upgrades over that time. With good test coverage and the right abstractions maintenance is feasible.

Also, because I wrote and own the code I don’t have to update if I don’t want to. I could choose instead to build around the dependency. That’s much more control over than when Microsoft bought GitHub and destroyed the Atom ide which I loved in favor of vscode which I still hate