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Terminals

Real PTYs, sessions that outlive the window, and the runtime that owns them.

July 28, 20262 Min Read

Why Alera Is Terminal-First (Not Another AI IDE)

The case for building around the CLIs you already use instead of wrapping one provider's chat in an Electron shell.

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Closing a window should never kill a three-hour agent run. The trick is who owns the PTY, and it is not the UI.

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Five agents in parallel and the fans spin up. The Resource Manager names the culprit per tab - including the time it blamed us, 26 times over.

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A chatty agent can stream output for an hour straight. That is a frame budget problem, and on Linux it is worse than you think.

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The mobile companion is honest about what it is: a window into your runtime host, not a phone IDE. Here is what it does today.

July 28, 20262 Min Read

Why we bet on Flutter and Rust instead of shipping another Electron shell around CLI agents.