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   by benswerd 6mo ago

   I disagree (as a sandboxing company). With respect to the market, every single sandbox sucks. I'm not gonna shit talk competitors but there is not a good sandboxing platform out there yet — including me — compared to where we'll b
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   by benswerd 6mo ago

   We're not going after hobbyists. We're building the platform for companies like exe.dev to build on. Thats why its all usage based. That said, our $50 a month plan can be used as an individual for your coding agents, but I wouldn&
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   by benswerd 6mo ago

   So this is an ongoing optimization point, no perfect solution exists. Freestyle VMs work with a network namespace and virtual ethernet cable going into them, so they all think they are the same IP. This means that while complex protocol con
4. 94.▲
   by benswerd 6mo ago

   Self hosting can be doable for constant small/medium size workloads You can handroll a lot with: https://github.com/nestybox/sysbox?tab=readme-ov-file https://gvisor.dev https://github.com&#
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   by benswerd 6mo ago

   Fly.io sprites is the most similar to us of the bunch. They do hardware virtualization as well, have comparable start times and are full Linux. What we call snapshots they call checkpoints. The big pros of Sprites over us is their advanced
6. 96.▲
   by benswerd 6mo ago

   Reviewing this now. our public pricing at www.freestyle.sh/pricing seems to be working, can you point me in a more specific direction?
7. 97.▲
   by benswerd 6mo ago

   I'm working on an article deep diving into the differences between all of us. I think the goal of Freestyle is to be the most powerful and most EC2 like of the bunch. Daytona runs on Sysbox ( https://github.com/nestybox&
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   by benswerd 6mo ago

   We're using copy on write with the memory itself. Fork time is completely decoupled from the size of the machine. Creating snapshots takes a 2-4 second interruption in the VM due to sheer IO that we didn't want here. Whats especia
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   Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents(freestyle.sh)

   322 points by benswerd 6mo ago|158 comments
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    by benswerd 7mo ago

    Made it with Vite+. Highly recommend trying it, rolldown HMR and build times are freakishly fast.
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    by benswerd 7mo ago

    I disagree with this. My team will send me random snippets from OSS libraries and we all go WTF what is that, and my team will also send really clever lines and we'll go wow. "Good code" is subjective, but good engineers have
12. 102.▲
    by benswerd 7mo ago

    This is correct. Comments serve a purpose too, but they should only be used when code fails to self document which should be the exception.
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    by benswerd 7mo ago

    I write systems rust on the cutting edge all day. My work is building instant MicroVM sandboxes. I was shocked recently when it helped me diagnose a musl compile issue, fork a sys package, and rebuild large parts of it in 2 hours. Would&#x2
14. 104.▲
    by benswerd 7mo ago

    I think this style of work will go away. I was skeptical but I now write the majority of my code through agents.
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    by benswerd 7mo ago

    Wrestled with this a bit. The struggle with this one in particular is its as much for people to read as it is for agents, and the agents are secondary in its case. I generally agree on this as best practice today, though I think it will bec
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    by benswerd 7mo ago

    I don't think testing the product alone is good enough, because when you give it tests it has to pass it prioritizes passing them at the expense of everything else — including code quality. I've seen it pull in random variables, b
17. 107.▲
    by benswerd 7mo ago

    LOL fr. I've been talking with some friends about RL on chaos monkeying the codebase to benchmark on feature isolation for measuring good code.
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    Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase(aicode.swerdlow.dev)

    170 points by benswerd 7mo ago|102 comments
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    by benswerd 7mo ago

    I've seen a lot of people talking about how AI is making codebases worse. I reject that, people are making codebases worse by not being intentional about how their AI writes code. This is my take on how to not write slop.
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    RPyC – Transparent, symmetric distributed computing(rpyc.readthedocs.io)

    2 points by benswerd 8mo ago|0 comments
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    by benswerd 8mo ago

    I didn't get it until you said this
22. 112.▲
    by benswerd 8mo ago

    The last year vs this year is crazy
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    by benswerd 9mo ago

    This is super basic, no caching or persistence at all, straight polling the streams and forwarding to the client. Would love to chat, my contact is public on my profile, send a msg.
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    by benswerd 9mo ago

    TBH not clear because I'm not clear on it. I believe the naming scheme is nonstandard across providers and not a requirement as part of the standards.
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    by benswerd 9mo ago

    I've been thinking a lot today about how these bots change with just a little bit more intelligence. Kinda terrifying.
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    Certificate Transparency Log Explorer(certs.swerdlow.dev)

    33 points by benswerd 9mo ago|10 comments
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    Favorite Rust Crates of 2025(docs.freestyle.sh)

    4 points by benswerd 9mo ago|0 comments
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    by benswerd 9mo ago

    I'm https://swerdlow.dev — love this
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    by benswerd 10mo ago

    It does not work on iOS Safari at all, it should show a warning at the top saying so
30. 120.▲
    by benswerd 10mo ago

    MacOS Linux Windows or other?