Designing a Recovery-First Coding Platform
How PebbleCode was shaped around the loop of run, diagnose, recover, and rerun.
PebbleCode started with a simple observation: most coding tools are built around correctness, not recovery. They tell you whether something worked, but they do not do much to help you recover from the moment it breaks.
I wanted to build around a different loop. Run. Diagnose. Recover. Rerun. That loop feels closer to how people actually learn, especially when they are still building confidence.
Once that became the core product idea, the interface decisions got clearer. The AI mentor had to be contextual instead of generic. The IDE had to preserve state. The feedback system had to push the user one step forward instead of collapsing the whole problem into a single answer.
The product direction matters because the system design follows from it. Recovery-first design is not only a UX idea. It affects orchestration, prompts, analytics, and the way progression is modeled over time.