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OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

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Re: OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

#14
post #5

This looks very nice and well done. Good job! Okay, I'm going to have a tongue-in-cheek rant now. OpenChamber, OpenAI, Open WebUI, OpenDoor, Open weights, OpenTable, OpenClaw, Open This, Open That. We're increasingly diluting the meaning of the term, and "open source" more broadly, that we're at the point of OpenFatigue being a real concern here.

>> "OpenFatigue being a real concern here." OpenConcern. But at least it's better than Concern.net or iConcern, or even eConcern. Let's not forget Digital Concern, ConcernCloud. And my least favourite, Concern On BlockChain.

Damnit! If I hadn't already blown $170 locking down `openfatigue.ai` today I would snap that one up too!

Re: OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

#15
post #5

This looks very nice and well done. Good job! Okay, I'm going to have a tongue-in-cheek rant now. OpenChamber, OpenAI, Open WebUI, OpenDoor, Open weights, OpenTable, OpenClaw, Open This, Open That. We're increasingly diluting the meaning of the term, and "open source" more broadly, that we're at the point of OpenFatigue being a real concern here.

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Re: OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

#18
Seems like another clone of Conductor, though this one has a serious amount of feature creep (supporting so many platforms will add a ton of extra complexity), and on OpenCode SDK only.

As a simpler desktop-only multi-platform option, I can highly recommend Termic (https://github.com/simion/termic). It just runs existing TUI coding agents (so Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, etc) and manages them in sandboxed git worktrees. You get a real PTY to manage agent in, lets you see when one is working or has paused, plus a terminal, "changed git files", even in-line-code comments you can feed back to the agent. It's a good design, works well, the main dev is working very quickly on improvements, and they're responsive to issues and PRs.

Re: OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

#19
post #11

I wonder what JetBrains is doing. They had such a strong lead, but with the rise of AI, they seem to be heading down the same path as Stack Overflow.

I've been paying JetBrains in a personal capacity for about 15 years. Almost from the first year of my professional career. I didn't renew this year. I feel so sad and disheartened that a company that produced such brilliant tools have completely lost the plot on AI. They had started work on Fleet, a lightweight VSCode like IDE, before LLMs became big, but abandoned the effort without seeing it through. It could've been a great agentic IDE (all I want is whole file+project view for every conversation, instead of just diff so I can have a better perspective of the codebase). Instead they built multiple confusing tools (might be internal org structure and competition leaking out), and took far too long to adopt SOTA CLI coding agents, and kept charging for it as a separate subscription. I wish they do a whole company rethink on agentic development, but it is going to be tough because the existing enterprise licenses will continue to be the main revenue driver for a few more years, until it all dries up all at once.

Re: OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

#20
post #11

I wonder what JetBrains is doing. They had such a strong lead, but with the rise of AI, they seem to be heading down the same path as Stack Overflow.

I let my Pycharm sub lapse since I switched to VSCode. Its lighter and better at some static analysis.
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