OpenAgents Episode 183: Zero Base

"This is our sixth time deleting our codebase. And we've grown exceedingly efficient at it."

Our new challenge:

In a fresh repo, can we build the world's best coding agent in three days?

We'll begin with a desktop app that wraps Claude Code and augments it with:

- Mobile sync for easy edits on-the-go

- An orchestration layer to keep Claude Code working 24/7

- Other models like o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, open/local

Claude Code has liberated us from IDEs and we're not going back.

But we don't think terminal UIs are the future either.

We want a desktop app synced easily with a mobile app.

That doesn't exist, so we'll build it.

And aim to release v1 by the end of this week!

Watch on X: https://x.com/OpenAgentsInc/status/1948214004268064771

Follow along: https://github.com/OpenAgentsInc/openagents

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Discussion

"Here's the idea:

Claude Code is running circles around Cursor and Windsurf from what I can tell, certainly in my own usage.

Claude Code lets me be in the editor maybe 5% of the time that I used to be.

What do you think the future is going to be?

Do you think in the future I'm going to spend more than 5% of my time in the editor, or less than 5% of my time in the editor?

No I think that's going to approach 0%.

So bearish on editors. Sorry Cursor, sorry Windsurf, I think we're going to go after your users. Thank you very much.

And then everyone's building these CLI agents. It frankly annoys me.

I want a desktop app and a mobile app.

So feel free to check back in three days if you want to test this out, otherwise stay tuned for the next video."

Episode 184: Hello Tauri

We create a fresh Tauri app with Bun, React, TypeScript, and Rust.

We add the permissive open-source license CC0, committing the OpenAgents codebase to the public domain.

Watch on X: https://x.com/openagentsinc/status/1948214009615765765?s=46