It's like people pulling their phones out while taking a piss standing, or having to pull their phones out when the traffic lights are red in a crossing.
Just, do one thing at a time, live a life.
Shipping code from your phone, whhhyy. Mates, this isn't a flex, it's depression.
Maintainer here. I get the concern, but that has not been my experience.
I don't think of the mobile side as a way to keep working on your phone on top of your full working day, although I will admit it can be used that way.
It is more about being able to step away from the desk without losing access to the work. Let's say you spend 6 hours at your desk, what if you could spend 2 of those hours walking instead?
To me, it has been valuable for steering long running agents, brainstorming ideas or triaging PRs/issues while taking a walk.
Fun fact, Paseo means "stroll" in Spanish, which is where the name came from.
Cool project. I don’t think people will get the mobile version until they need it but when they do it’s a mind bending, life changing realization. I built my own IDE to have it on my phone because I have small kids and it is truly life changing. I get to spend way more time with my kids while still getting work done.
If you’re open to collaborating I’d be happy to share what I’ve learned an see if we can share resources or lessons.
I do sometimes wish I can monitor my agent on the go and keep drip-feeding it tasks. Because I do genuinely need to read how the last task went before I decide whether to correct or to move to the next task.
I absolutely get that, but I've been working with Claude remote control on my phone as I bicycle every other day. (I have heart and mobility problems and I have to take it gentle with exercise.) I ride to a beautiful spot where there's a bench and sit and use Claude to write features or React components. I'm actually wanting to try this to see if I can rig up a voice-control flow so I can literally just ride my bike all day from park to café to wherever and still be getting code done.
This seems extreme. Maybe I’m just optimistic but I think people can be intentional and present while also having the convenience and accessibility that something like paseo offers.
- If I’m on-call, it would be great to just take my iPad mini around with me instead of my heavy MacBook Pro.
- Sometimes I’m on the couch with my phone and want to query an agent with access to my computer’s file system.
It's very addictive when you're working on something cool and the agents are iterating nicely. Instead of browsing reddit / HN / instagram etc during downtime, I find it much more fun to build something.
Umm. I have small kids that I take to classes and swim school and gymnastics and so on and so on. I built www.propelcode.app which is similar to this project so I didn’t need to be chained to my desktop and I didn’t need to let AI agents run wild with no code review or human in the loop oversight. For some of us doing development on our phones is living life.
And the fact that some of the coding tasks I trigger take 20 minutes means I can fire off a message, leave it, look at the code when I have a spare moment, suggest changes, and go on spending time with my kids.
Honestly it’s freaking amazing.
And I will definitely check out this project and contribute to it with what I have learned! Kudos to the developers behind it.
This project in particular has been unconcerned with new coding practices so far, primarily, because I derive pleasure from hand-written implementations of my ideas, and believe that overcoming challenges the hard way is the main value I get from it.
This 100% the same for me. Outside of work where speed is more important than quality, and I work with people that use AI, I don't use AI at all on my own projects. It poisons the mind and the soul. Ok that sounds dramatic, but I felt down up until the point where I started hand writing everything again. Software engineering is still fun and powerful, and the hell with where the world is going.
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