I’m building Agentic Control Freak (ACF): a local control plane for Codex CLI, Claude Code, Antigravity CLI, and Ollama. With ACF, you can build local projects ranging from Next.js apps to training ML models all via your browser on your local machine.
The agents still do the coding. ACF owns the outer loop:
"task -> plan -> approve -> execute -> verify -> preview -> handoff"
It keeps durable state outside any one agent session: plans, tasks, filesystem diffs, checkpoints, undos, forks, verification runs, previews, memory, skills, and handoff briefs. That means you can switch providers mid-project without starting from zero.
It also does not trust the agent’s final message. The filesystem diff is truth; verification and live preview are owned by the control plane.
The orchestration, workspaces, previews, and state are local: localhost-only, workspace-confined under .workspace/<project>, and not meant for hosting. Provider CLIs may still call their model services. Optional Telegram control lets you approve or steer runs from your phone through a token-gated local worker.
Repo: https://github.com/Antibody/Agentic-Control-Freak
Video intro: https://youtu.be/1fRH-XQrgkY
ML model design and training video: https://youtu.be/KdiiU4RIfFU
P.S. I’d love feedback, especially on whether the app works on Mac or Linux (I tested only on Win11).
I've been coding for probably twenty years and I'm still enjoying it.
The problem solving part you're talking about is fun too — it's the social part of development. You get to talk to people and figure stuff out together. What's our common interface, what does the customer want, nay need; security aspects, synchronization problems, etc.
Then you get to work on your craft. You make it nice. You make it tight. You make it lean. And you get to just zone in on your own for a while, and you're in full control. Everytime you build something large and new, you're most likely working with a brand new stack with lots of QoL improvements and your joy of coding rises yet again due to higher DX.
So I like both things.
But the reviewing and correcting other's mistakes? So tedious.
Also in my experience, the thinking and problem solving is the stuff that takes the longest. The actual coding part is only a small part of the development process.