Tired of boring AI assistants? I built a "Desktop Pet" Copilot that wanders around your screen and writes code

Hey everyone. I don't know if you feel the same way when coding, but while current AI coding assistants are incredibly useful, they sometimes feel a bit clunky to use. You either have to constantly shift your focus back and forth between your code and the IDE sidebar, or context-switch to a browser to ask ChatGPT or Claude when you hit a general problem outside your specific project. As a minimalist (read: lazy) developer, I kept thinking: How cool would it be if this AI could materialize on my screen like those old-school desktop pets (like Shimeji or BonziBuddy), wandering around and always on call? Driven by this random thought over the holidays, I built an open-source desktop pet app — CodeWalkers. 🐶 What exactly is this? Simply put, it's a cross-platform transparent desktop app built with Tauri V2. It spawns a few pixel-art characters on your screen. These little guys don't just aimlessly wander over your code editor or browser—more importantly, they come with an "AI brain". When