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Thinkrail is built around the pi coding agent and keeps specs in SPEC.md files beside the code. It is Apache 2.0 licensed and ships for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Veteran JetBrains users in the thread were less interested in the README than in whether they still need an IDE.
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DeltaDB stores fine-grained "deltas" with stable IDs instead of snapshots, so references survive edits, and pairs every agent message with its code change. Nathan Sobo: "the conversation with the agent becomes the only conversation you need."
The loudest engineers weren't sold on the philosophy — they liked Zed precisely because it let them switch the AI off. There's already an anti-AI fork, and a real technical gap: no multi-repo story.
