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I would also love to hire an engineer with a background in design who wants to build UIs that are both functional and beautiful. You would get to own UI.

exe.dev | SF Bay Area | full time | $200k+, meaningful equity Come build a new cloud. The entire engineering team has been in the industry 20+ years. Lots of hard problems. The fre…

Author here. FWIW, I do this with my Shelley modifications. It works.

Hi, author here. FWIW, the only people I coordinated with are my colleagues at exe.dev. Philip wrote a blog post a week ago on the topic too: https://blog.exe.dev/customizing-shell…

Hi, author here. The entire second paragraph of my blog post is dedicated to the question you asked. There is really nothing more I can add.

(Author here.) Open models are really quite good now. I still use oai as my daily but I have been very impressed by qwen/glm/k3/etc when I try them. They are clearly my future.

(Author here.) FWIW the first version of meat was based on anthropic models, I switched to Oai models because they are faster and just as good right now. This is an astonishing thi…

Interestingly, it's the .xyz on our VM domain that causes problems. It's apparently far more of a problematic gTLD than I realized. E.g. it appears Southwest Airlines blocks the en…

(exe.dev co-founder here) The platform is designed make it easy for you to share if you like, but we are not typically in the business of pointing directly at products users make. …

I’m just going to keep building. :)

If you have a good local VM flow that’s great. I couldn’t make it work for me. I ended up needing it to run when my laptop was shut, both as an agent and the servers I am building.…

I think it’s worth trying. There’s a lot of value in having the agent in the box. You can give it root so it can do something like tcpdump unsupervised. And if you happen to build …

For those looking to run agents: the short lifecycle of the typical “sandbox” seems surprisingly limiting to me. I have no actual workflow where I want one of these products. Somet…

This is the nature of large institutions: they have to distrust their own people. You cannot be relied on to act well, you must be checked first. There is a good reason for this! I…

My eight year old found a Terry Pratchett book of mine on the shelf the other day. He is a little too young to read them today but I realized I get to enjoy Pratchett all over agai…

Nah. There are billions of people on the internet, and it varies from a dusty library to Atlantic City (though for some reason we let kids into the casino?). It is not one thing an…

I could type ~four lines and an alert box response from a visual form. For years I have lamented the amount of paperwork necessary in most of modern programming to get things done.…

exe.dev | full time member of technical staff | sf bay area only competitive salary, meaningful early equity, 2 days a week in the downtown sf office come build a cloud. we are doi…

One VC (well, two) understood it. Despite what you hear, there is a lot of variation. Speak to a lot of people.

Hello, author here. Our exe.dev web UI still runs on AWS. We also have a few users left on our VM hosts there, as when we launched in December we were considering building on AWS. …

Author here. I need to fix our transfer pricing. (In fact I'm going to go look at it now.) I set that number when we launched in December, and we were still considering building on…

Author here. Almost every VC rejected us when we went to get seed funding for Tailscale, we knew none of them. Friends of friends of acquaintances got us meetings. Fundraising is v…

Author here. Most of our infra is custom, the VMM is based on cloud-hypervisor (a project spiritually similar to Firecracker). We have a lot of work to do, including on the VMM, bu…

Hi, co-founder here. If you would like more detail, and often HN does, I wrote up some more about what we are doing here: https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud

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