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by emerongi 7 days ago
Sprites seems like a solid lifestyle business for a few friends, not a startup that has taken funding.

As a developer, I use docker/podman. Works great.

The new massive market that will open up, where grandma and grandpa are making apps, will be taken up by Lovable (and the like). Non-devs will not be using sprites.

You’re capturing some small percentage of existing developers.
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spopejoy 7 days ago
In theory I'm in OP's described target market here, b/c I am absolutely terrified of agents wrecking my pooter/home network/life as they 100x my sw dev. Every day a new story comes out about OpenCode, CC whatever being a security nightmare.

If it's so easy to containerize these things then why aren't more devs doing it and these stories going away? I for one am actively avoiding the agentic coding switch because I have no interest in opening my home environment to a remote corporate LLM just to write code faster. But of course I'm missing out, as soon as I have more than one source file that I want my chat LLM to analyze in a single go.

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aeden 6 days ago
Devs don't do it because we are a lazy bunch, which is the same reason we like using LLMs so much, because it taps into our laziness.
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Groxx 6 days ago
Nah, I think this falls squarely in the ideal space for devs: we want to be even lazier, so we build tools to allow that. Yak shaving is the premier lifestyle for devs. Some get so into it that they stop programming, move to the hills, and raise yaks so they can shave them.

As evidence, I point to the massive number of mostly-LLM-generated LLM-sandboxing projects. Practically every day, I see a new 100k+ LoC project to make agentic coding safe, with shiny emoji-and-badge-encrusted readmes...

... and no issues, no forks, and usually no new commits after the first two weeks. Try to use one and you'll quickly see they're all extremely bug-ridden (one of the few constants with LLM code). And some have stood the test of time and have ten thousand issues that are mostly regressions that were once fixed but come back every other week. But they keep popping up rapidly!

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