dbmikus

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by dbmikus 3mo ago
Is the talk going to be shared online anywhere? Would be interested in checking it out later!
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by dbmikus 3mo ago
exe.dev is great, but the VMs are not really "apps". They are durable computers / VMs. An example of a "sandboxed agent app", would be: give the app all your past emails. An agent scans them and finds sales emails y
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by dbmikus 3mo ago
Def! My personal belief is that the future of an "app" is a combo: 1. micro VM 2. agent on the VM 3. software bundled into the VM So, it should be stupid simple to run these local sandboxed apps/agents. Righ
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by dbmikus 3mo ago
Firecracker has more tooling for the orchestration layer that manages many sandboxes at once. Stuff like K8S integration, an external REST API control plane, more first-class support for snapshotting, etc. You'd have to build more of
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by dbmikus 3mo ago
Why do you want to self-host vs. using one of the many providers out there? Daytona, E2B, OpenComputer, Freestyle, Blaxel, Vercel, Modal, Cloudflare, Tensorlake, Superserve, etc. etc. Some of them work by pre-purchasing credits, so you can
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by dbmikus 3mo ago
There are sooooo many sandbox providers out there. They do spike on different features like: - snapshotting and forking - good SSH and VPN access for end-users - agent-friendly features, like obscuring secrets at network layer
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by dbmikus 4mo ago
Yes, running locally certainly helps if you want your sandboxed AI to be able to use the internet without getting blackholed by Cloudflare
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by dbmikus 4mo ago
Yeah, Docker Sandbox is in the right direction. But there's a lot of parts that are still not ironed out yet. How do you package a Docker Sandbox up into an app that can expose UI widgets, with an agent hiding behind them? What widgets
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by dbmikus 4mo ago
Understand that it is annoying to spin up a heavyweight VM whenever running Claude Desktop, but I actually think per-app + agent virtualization is the future. Next version of an app is: 1. micro VM 2. agent on the VM 3. softwa
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by dbmikus 4mo ago
Claude Code's dynamic workflows are AI-generated JavaScript, so unlike `/goal` they can in theory import libraries and perform I/O (not sure that they can currently). On checkpointing: I explained myself poorly. You're r
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by dbmikus 4mo ago
To stop agents from pausing for checkpointing, you can have a deterministic outer loop that re-runs until a stop condition is met. I think teams need to be able to write nested workflows that transition between code-led and agent-led, with
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by dbmikus 5mo ago
I think with a proper managed agents platform, the user should have total control over the VM, the software on it, which model to use, and which agent harness to use. Then you can just override the system prompt and you don't need to f
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by dbmikus 6mo ago
A couple other major open source harnesses: - https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/ - https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode
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by dbmikus 6mo ago
Spaces help me visually organize related apps. I have all my chat apps in one, all my dev stuff in another. I used to run Linux with i3 tiling window manager, but switched to Mac because the battery is so much better. Although the new Frame
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by dbmikus 6mo ago
I really like exe.dev's pricing model where I pay a fixed monthly fee for compute and then can split it up into as many VMs as I want. I use exe.dev to run little vibe-coded apps and it's nice to just leave them running without a
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by dbmikus 6mo ago
Like the detailed setup instructions in the readme! Also agree that teams should invest in their own harness (or maybe pedantically, build a system on top of harness likes Claude Code, Codex, Pi, or OpenCode)
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by dbmikus 6mo ago
Yes, I hate how slow it is to swipe between desktop workspaces, for example.
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by dbmikus 6mo ago
Curious if Andon has gone one level higher and has the AI decide what next real-world experiment it should do.
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by dbmikus 6mo ago
If you don't get it working with Claude Code Routines, would love to connect and see if we can help! We're building an open core product that can spin up sandboxed coding and control them from Slack (and also web UI, TUI, and HTTP
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by dbmikus 6mo ago
We might be building something up your alley! I wanted an OSS platform that let me run any coding agent (or multiple agents) in a sandbox and control it either programmatically or via GUI / TUI. Website is https://amika.dev
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by dbmikus 6mo ago
necro-posting here, but that's kinda what we're working on! We're focused on creating cloud workspaces for sandboxed coding agents and it's built to support any agent harness. https://www.amika.dev/ Unde
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by dbmikus 6mo ago
I'm a cofounder of Amika ( https://www.amika.dev/ ) (OSS repo: https://github.com/gofixpoint/amika ). We let users spin up sandboxed coding agents in the cloud, and control them interactively or prog
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by dbmikus 7mo ago
Are there any good guides on how to write prompt files tailored to different agents? Would also be interested in examples of a CLAUDE.md file that works well in Claude, but works poorly with Codex.
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by dbmikus 7mo ago
Every website needs to add the "friend or foe" system[0] so that I can mark bots to avoid their content and mark good posters so I can filter just to theirs. [0]: https://hackersmacker.org/
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by dbmikus 7mo ago
From the article, it looks like they integrated with Docker because someone at Docker reached out about collaborating on the integration. Regarding security, I think you need three things: 1. You need the agent to run inside a sandbox.
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by dbmikus 7mo ago
Cool, thanks for explaining!
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by dbmikus 7mo ago
Appreciate the deets! It sounds like a big part of your use case is to safely give an agent control of your computer? Like, for things besides codegen? We're probably not going to directly support that type of use case, since we'r
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by dbmikus 7mo ago
I like that it's all bash. How does this compare with Codex's and Claude's built-in sandboxing?
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by dbmikus 7mo ago
I've been working on an OSS project, Amika[1], to quickly spin up local or remote sandboxes for coding workloads. We support copy-on-write semantics locally (well, "copy-and-then-write" for now... we just copy directories to
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by dbmikus 8mo ago
> Or mainly to save the end user the hassle to set it up correctly It's this. Don't have a Dropbox moment ;) [1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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