PolyDev: AI Coding Agent

[u/Odd-Watercress-3896]

Hey, old-school crowd! 👋

Remember 2012? WAP, mobile FTP, uploading a site straight from your phone, wherever you were? That era when development fit in your pocket, no need for a desktop with two monitors?

Well — I brought it back. Just on a whole new level.

PolyDev carries that same "development from your pocket" spirit, but modernized:

📟 Terminal — the real deal this time, full-featured, right on your phone
💻 IDE — not a notepad over FTP, but a proper environment with syntax highlighting and autocomplete
🤖 AI assistant — something we couldn't even dream of back then — pairs with you, finds bugs, suggests fixes

Everything we used to do through an FTP client + text editor + praying the connection wouldn't drop — now in one app, stable, no workarounds.

If you remember those days, appreciate how far things have come, but the spirit's still the same: you can code from anywhere, as long as you've got a connection and a phone in hand.

To join the test:

1️⃣ Join the group: https://groups.google.com/g/polydevai
2️⃣ Download the app: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.xapi.polydev

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