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Shadow Workspace: Iterating on Code in the Background

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Hidden windows and kernel-level folder proxies to let AIs iterate on code without affecting the user.

Blog / research Here’s a recipe for failure: paste a few relevant files into a Google Doc, send the link to your favorite p60 software engineer who knows nothing about your codebase, and ask them to fully and correctly implement your next PR inside the doc. Ask an AI to do the same and it will also, predictably, fail. Now, instead give them remote access to your development environment, with the ability to see lints, go to definitions, and run code, and you may actually expect them to be somewhat helpful. Figure 1: Would you rather debug your pin-boxed future lifetimes in your code editor or i

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