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by cadamsdotcom 7 days ago
Hello gents, some quick feedback.

I think when you say “ditch localhost” you’re telling me to ditch my fast, instant-response laptop which I own and can peg the CPU of 24/7 for $0, in favour of a tiny cloud VM that I rent forever.

Your infra to run agents and builds for me is compared in my mind to a shell script an agent wrote a year ago and I reviewed once, that fires up my dev server and a local psql (5-10mb ram) on a dynamically allocated port hashed off the name of my current worktree, which it does so it doesn’t clash with other parallel work.

When the internet slows or dies I rarely notice.

As a cost conscious person who likes it when letters appear as I type, I think I might not be your ICP.

Am I being an asshole? Maybe. Am I going out of my way to tell you what goes on in the minds of people like me when we see offerings like this? Also maybe.

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It's clearly not for you, you built yourself a version that works for you.

It's not me for either currently but that doesn't mean it's not useful.

Although there's a ton of other providers with their own more or less managed/opinionated flavor of agentic sandboxes.

We cataloged a bunch here

https://engine.build/lab/agent-sandboxes

I'll also add boxes.dev to that list.

But yeah overall your tone was asshole flavored lol. Maybe being a bit of a hater too.