Hi HN — I’m Tajudeen, the person who built CortexIDE.

I work on large codebases during the day, and I built this at night because I wanted a local-first AI editor I could actually control. Extensions worked fine for small edits, but once I needed multi-file changes, reviewable diffs, and predictable behavior, things started to break down.

CortexIDE is a VS Code–based editor focused on explicit AI edits: plan first, show diffs, then apply only after review. It supports local models, repo-aware context, PDF/image uploads for additional context, and checkpoints so changes can be rolled back.

This is still early and I’m actively improving performance and reliability, especially on larger repos.

I’d really appreciate feedback on where AI editors fail for you, what you don’t trust them with, and what would make you switch (or not).

I'm not quite seeing what the difference between this and Void is?