Manifesto

Why we built Vibe Space when Cursor existed.

A short essay on tool fragmentation, workspace sovereignty, and why the next AI engineering tool should belong to the engineer, not the cloud.

01 — The AI coding stack got fragmented.

Five browser tabs of ChatGPT. Cursor in one window. Claude Code in a terminal. Codex in another terminal. The “shipping faster with AI” promise turned into “managing five tools that all want my attention.”

Each tool is excellent at what it does. None of them was built to work alongside the others. The visible cost — context-switching — is the obvious one. The invisible cost is bigger: every tool wants its own subscription, its own privacy policy, its own quota, its own opinion about your codebase.

Vibe Space starts from a different premise. The cockpit doesn't replace any of those tools. It hosts them. Side by side. In parallel. With one set of keys and one window.

02 — Workspace > chat thread.

Chat threads are linear. Workspaces are spatial. Engineers think in spatial terms — files arranged in folders, tabs by topic, panes by workflow. Forcing every AI interaction through a chat-shaped funnel loses information.

Vibe Space is a workspace. Sessions are positioned. Agents have their own panes. You can see them running at the same time and switch which one has your attention without scrolling history.

03 — Local-first is non-negotiable.

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04 — E2E remote access changes everything.

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05 — Honesty over hype.

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