It's still flaky: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tornadovps.com.html. They have a blog post regarding the outage (may not load if it's also been affected): https://tornadovps.com/blog/2026/07/distributed-denial-of-se....

As the linked page describes, “Tornado VPS is a focused, old-school VPS provider that has been active since 2005, originally under the Prgmr.com name. They do one thing only – Linux and BSD virtual private servers on Xen – and they clearly target people who already know how to manage a server.”

Their main site (https://tornadovps.com) has been down for hours, and probably all sites hosted on it: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tornadovps.com.html

How would this be different from Apple's recently launched "container" utility? https://github.com/apple/container

I feel that flow state[1] is possible as long as you don't feel distracted into doing other things and you're needed to guide the LLM along every few seconds/minutes (someone mentioned a pair-programming type tool in this thread). For me that works if you have a good spec + workflow tool (assuming you're doing interactive coding and not kicking off long running coding jobs). I feel that a good test of a workflow tool is that it should offload all bookkeeping from you, leaving you to just read the generated code and think about design/architecture.

I built one such tool for myself: https://www.shipsmooth.net. You can use it to spec/plan out a piece of work, and then easily keep updating the spec/plan as you churn through its implementation. The tool assumes that you will pretty much end up changing the spec/plan during implementation, based on how it's going. In general, I don't see how it's possible to one-shot high quality code for custom use cases.

[1] Going by the definition of flow state here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology): "fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by the complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting transformation in one's sense of time."

It's possible they are running at a loss at present. But in a recent podcast their founder said he believes inference is profitable, based on their experience serving models: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/opencode (search for "profitable")

It would be interesting to see if LLM's can scan and surface such issues. Might have been probable with parsing tools pre-LLM also? Not sure.

I believe “sessionization” is a common term used for this: https://dev3lop.com/blog/sessionization-in-clickstream-event...

Fairly predictable given the times: a plugin for coding assistants that supports a development workflow that I like :) It's at https://www.shipsmooth.net/.

Perhaps the more interesting bit is that it's in Java (not Typescript or Rust)! Java 25 is pretty neat. Bonus: getting to know how to distribute a self-contained Java program using jlink and the likes: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/specs/man/jli...

Yeah it was very disappointing that so few details were provided. One of the reasons I think it's going to be an open source project or effort that is going to show, sooner or later, how effective these things actually are.

In their podcast interview, they mention that it's an Electron app that users download, and so they periodically create a new build. See section "Autonomous Merging Flow" here: https://www.latent.space/p/harness-eng