I built a safety-first AI IDE in Tauri/Rust – local, free, $0 (7 months solo) (opens in new tab)

Yesterday, Cursor was acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion. I've been building a free, local-first AI IDE for 7 months. Alone. No VC money. No team. No MIT network. This is that story. Why I built PunamIDE Most AI IDEs are built around one idea: code faster. PunamIDE is built around a different idea: don't let AI break your codebase. After watching AI agents silently overwrite files, ignore merge conflicts, run dangerous shell commands, and hallucinate architecture decisions — I wanted an IDE w...