pramodbiligiri
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Comment · 1 month ago
I too felt the need for some structure around AI coding, and created a spec-based tool earlier this year: https://www.shipsmooth.net/. I'm happy using it. I think of it as "light-weight" and encouraging iterative development over specs+code. It creates just one spec file and one "tasks" file for each unit of work. Available as a plugin for Claude, Codex etc.
Comment · 3 months ago
It's still flaky: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tornadovps.com.html. They have a blog post regarding the outage (may not load if it's also been affected): https://tornadovps.com/blog/2026/07/distributed-denial-of-se....
Comment · 3 months ago
As the linked page describes, “Tornado VPS is a focused, old-school VPS provider that has been active since 2005, originally under the Prgmr.com name. They do one thing only – Linux and BSD virtual private servers on Xen – and they clearly target people who already know how to manage a server.”
Their main site (https://tornadovps.com) has been down for hours, and probably all sites hosted on it: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tornadovps.com.html
Comment · 3 months ago
How would this be different from Apple's recently launched "container" utility? https://github.com/apple/container
Comment · 4 months ago
I feel that flow state[1] is possible as long as you don't feel distracted into doing other things and you're needed to guide the LLM along every few seconds/minutes (someone mentioned a pair-programming type tool in this thread). For me that works if you have a good spec + workflow tool (assuming you're doing interactive coding and not kicking off long running coding jobs). I feel that a good test of a workflow tool is that it should offload all bookkeeping from you, leaving you to just read the generated code and think about design/architecture.
I built one such tool for myself: https://www.shipsmooth.net. You can use it to spec/plan out a piece of work, and then easily keep updating the spec/plan as you churn through its implementation. The tool assumes that you will pretty much end up changing the spec/plan during implementation, based on how it's going. In general, I don't see how it's possible to one-shot high quality code for custom use cases.
[1] Going by the definition of flow state here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology): "fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one's sense of time."
Comment · 4 months ago
It's possible they are running at a loss at present. But in a recent podcast their founder said he believes inference is profitable, based on their experience serving models: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/opencode (search for "profitable")
Comment · 4 months ago
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