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This is interesting but don't you worry that you're competing with entire companies (e.g. Anthropic) and thus it's a losing battle? Since you're re-implementing a bunch of stuff they either do in their harness or have decided it was better not to do?

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I think it's worth remembering that for any offering like that, it necessarily needs to be ~one-size-fits-all, while what you come up with.. doesn't.

They're solving a different problem than you. So I think it's very plausible that you could come up with something that, for your use case, performs considerably better than their "defaults".

Personally I don't see aipack's pro@coder and other approaches (claude code, cursor, copilot, etc...) as competitors anymore. I use both approaches to solve different problems. I keep using the agentic solutions (claude code style) for more operational tasks, a bit like "smart interfaces to terminal", and pro@coder for coding / engineering tasks where I need a much tighter control over long running work sessions.

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