[docheinestages]

Just my two cents: less is more and the first impression matters a lot. I'm saying this because we see a new agent sandbox tool on the front-page almost every day. Most of them have an AI-made landing page design, lots of animations, lots of words. This has become a bad sign for me. I can tell that you put time into it, made a video, and everything, but I guess I'm suffering from some kind of fatigue of having to go through all these tools. So, the less I have to process to get to the meat of exactly what I'm looking at, what sets this apart from others, why and when I would need to use it, then the more likely I am to actually engage with the product.

[ozkatz]

That's fair. What makes this unique is the versioned, composable filesystem. It's built on top of lakeFS (https://github.com/treeverse/lakeFS) so it scales really well, unlike other solutions that try and do this with Git directly.

[hamandcheese]

Is lakeFS an FS....? Zero mention of FUSE or a kernel module at all in the README.

[rendaw]

The title says it's a new filesystem, you either need to use fuse or a kernel module.

[cbsks]

I mean not really. There is a FUSE implementation, but you need an enterprise account https://docs.lakefs.io/v1.60/reference/mount/

I’m not seeing a kernel module anywhere..

[doctorpangloss]

LLM authored comments are against the rules. I don't think file versioning is differentiated anyway.

[nateb2022]

OP is actually one of the co-creators of lakeFS, for context.

[whalesalad]

Agreed. All of these tools promise the world and are so incredibly vague. Actually show me what I can do with it, like hands on.

[ozkatz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDR8tmes020 - a 2 minute hands-on demo!

[lifty]

I see a lot of negative feedback here, but I don't agree with it. This is really fantastic what you have built, especially for longer running agents that are used repeatedly, in which case the initial investment of giving only the permissions it needs is worth the effort. To that end, ability to combine several agents which have different roles, which are narrowly scoped in terms of permissions, would be a very useful feature. Perhaps you could even have an agent or UI overlay driven by AI, which can quickly scope the permissions for a new agent, so that users don't need to do it manually.

[whalesalad]

Being brutally honest - terrible demo. 80% of this is baseline stuff, setting up permissions (annoying), and the last few seconds we see a file was deleted and we can approve it. This is not selling your product.

[ozkatz]

Appreciate the honest feedback. I agree there's a lot to improve there.

[messh]

Sadly this is what sells. Standing out in this regard checkout https://shellbox.dev maybe swinging too far though?

[dev360]

As someone who is building an AI tool in this category, can you give examples? :)

I've tried to focus more on end-user use-cases in my own product positioning, even though security is absolutely at the top of my list. This was hard to watch because it felt it demonstrated a security feature that is really secondary to the purpose of an agent.

What would be a spin in this AI category that would excite or surprise you?

[debarshri]

Anthropic is probably looking at this trend and building something. When released will kill couple of startups.