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by BrandiATMuhkuh

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Very cool. Was looking for something like this for a new project of mine. (I'm working on a project that is like a marriage of retool+OpenClaw. It's used by SME to quickly build inhouse apps)

by runako

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How does this compare to Apple container[1]?
I am excited by the innovation happening in the space!
1 - https://github.com/apple/container

by Xlab

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I will steal this to make a local-first version of https://microterm.dev for macOS :)
My idea is to have unified environment across all targets, so the only thing that changes is speed and amount of RAM.

by josephg

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What does local first mean in this context? Does it just mean local? Like, the software runs locally?

by 7777777phil

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The agent stack is splitting into specialized layers and sandboxing is clearly becoming its own thing. Shuru, E2B, Modal, Firecracker wrappers.
Earlier this month I wrote about how these layers have very different defensibility profiles and why going monolithic is the wrong call: https://philippdubach.com/posts/dont-go-monolithic-the-agent...
EDIT: Spelling

by rishabhaiover

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I've noticed claude forks parallel agents on an assigned task. How would they communicate in isolated sandboxes like these? Would it be cleaner and more effective for a harness to orchestrate swarms of agents in a single clean linux environment like OrbStack?

by xrd

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by tobyhinloopen

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by Krisso

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by janlucien

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by okayokay123

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by conradev

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Use OrbStack. It’s faster than Virtualization.framework because it has its own hypervisor.