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Josep Ferrer's avatar

Loved this honest brain dump Julien! The planning sweet spot point is something I've felt but never put into words. Curious how you manage context across long VPS sessions?

Julien Hurault's avatar

Thanks a lot Josep! What do you mean exactly by “long VPS sessions”?

My VPS is basically always on, and all my agents run there continuously. The session state/files are stored directly on the machine. I just connect through SSH and use tmux to navigate across projects and sessions.

Does that answer your question?

Kirill's avatar

Wow, great recap! The material was very useful for me.

PI and QWEN OSS is something definitely worth knowing. I'm still a little bit old-fashioned and think coding is only one part. I tried to solve the context part for myself and came to https://github.com/kpruntov/SpecLoom - it traces requirements to code with AI, providing the plan part you are talking about. But it is much more manual than the tools you describe and requires babysitting for sure.

Can you tell more about the VPS setup you use and how you control work with sessions there - a simple remote terminal? Any alerts on the completeness of the task and controls?

Julien Hurault's avatar

Super happy to hear that, thanks a lot Kirill.

I really like how you enforce documentation standards with SpecLoom, that’s something need to get better at.

Yes, I mostly use a simple SSH terminal + tmux setup. I review the code either in GitHub or with Zed connected via SSH as well.

And no, I don’t get any alerts currently — that’s definitely a weak point in my setup.