Got tired of AI copilots just autocompleting, and built Glass Arc

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Hey HN,Over the last few months, I realized I was paying $20/month for an AI that essentially just acts as a really good autocomplete. It waits for me to type, guesses the next block, and stops. But software engineering isn't just writing syntax, it's managing the file system, running terminal commands, and debugging stack traces.So I pivoted my project and built Glass Arc. It’s an agentic workspace that lives directly inside VS Code.Instead of just generating text, I gave it actual agency over the local environment (safely):1. Agentic Execution: You give it an intent, and it drafts the architecture across multiple files, managing the dependency tree and running standard terminal commands to

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