Now I've got my dream coding agent: I create work trees at the touch of a button from my phone
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In the thread “JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025”
Helped: Parallel background agents, custom LLM gateway, mobile access
Got in the way: IDE features redundant, Junie compliance too difficult
… over Termius is pretty weak, so I was like "Oh maybe I can have a mobile app that uses Pi as an API or something" but then I kept hearing the creator of Pi talk about how simple the coding loop was so I just wrote the coding loop into my LLM gateway and then created clients for it for iOS, android, macOS, windows and web, all using Kotlin Multiplatform. Now I've got my dream coding agent: I create work trees at the touch of a button from my phone, I discuss with the agent using the "reply mode" interleaved reply feature, I have a flexible bash script based workflow engine, a centralised script/skill distribution framework, centralised billing/model gateway, all built into a single dev box that runs everything and can be deployed using one of those fancy curl -> bash pipeline things. I can deploy to …