Wow, I see a lot of potential with this project!
Using the filesystem simplifies the integration with 3rd parties significantly.
Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
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#122I had to dig hard to find this is a SAAS sandbox offering not an actual sandbox (the software i can use locally). Its just wasting peoples time, no one needs a non opensource sandbox. There are now at least 3 apache 2 projects (smolmachines, microsandbox, boxlite) working on sandboxes and at least one of them should be ready for primetime soon.
It’s like saying no one needs Dropbox because rsync exists, or no one needs HubSpot because Salesforce exists.
Not really, its more like saying no one needs another windows when linux exists. By "no one needs" i mean the world needs open source sandbox building blocks that are up to the challenges of the current age, no closed source solution can be a fundamental building block for the world to become better and more secure. No non-local building block can be at the foundation to anything that makes the world better and more robust.
Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
#123I had to dig hard to find this is a SAAS sandbox offering not an actual sandbox (the software i can use locally). Its just wasting peoples time, no one needs a non opensource sandbox. There are now at least 3 apache 2 projects (smolmachines, microsandbox, boxlite) working on sandboxes and at least one of them should be ready for primetime soon.
It's interesting to see this one launch (yes yet another sandbox.. I was getting worried we'd not seen one for a few days) SlicerVM (est. 2022) is already used for prime time, not "free as in beer" but has pretty reasonable individual plans that include all features. Shares the core code with actuated. (Creator of both speaking here) Feel free to take a look and see if gives you a little more than the others you ment…
What do you mean "not free as in beer"? Its not free as in anything? Sandboxes need to be open source, nothing else is acceptable.
Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
#124Another one.
If it's not a local sandbox, I'm not interested.
We've got enough subscription lock-in from LLM's already.
Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
#125I had to dig hard to find this is a SAAS sandbox offering not an actual sandbox (the software i can use locally). Its just wasting peoples time, no one needs a non opensource sandbox. There are now at least 3 apache 2 projects (smolmachines, microsandbox, boxlite) working on sandboxes and at least one of them should be ready for primetime soon.
It’s like saying no one needs Dropbox because rsync exists, or no one needs HubSpot because Salesforce exists.
No, it's like saying almost no one wants a saaszsh. Which is probably an accurate statement.
Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
#126I was trying to build an agent. None of the sandboxes out there had solved the filesystem problem. I want my agent to have a persistent storage, and that stays forever. Like a human with a computer. When the agent spins up again, it has access to the computer with the same files. I had to create my own setup using aws s3 filesystem and docker for this. Does Tilde solve for this?
This is something solved by a bunch of new sandboxes including ours - SmolVM
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s like saying no one needs Dropbox because rsync exists, or no one needs HubSpot because Salesforce exists.
Not really, its more like saying no one needs another windows when linux exists. By "no one needs" i mean the world needs open source sandbox building blocks that are up to the challenges of the current age, no closed source solution can be a fundamental building block for the world to become better and more secure. No non-local building block can be at the foundation to anything that makes the world better and more…
That's a very narrow and technical person's point of view.
You might need it open source, the majority of the world doesn't care, like they don't care Windows is closed source, or like AWS is a "cloud" running somewhere else. Both of them are building blocks that made "the world better and more robust".
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#128Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
#129It's funny how everyone is converging on similar ideas with AI tools. I did something similar to offload work to cheaper models from claude code when anthropic started squeezing the subscription quota https://github.com/smidy/forger
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#130This is good and all, but it doesn't stop the agent from deleting you remote github branches, s3 data or potentially gdrive data.
Are you able to set access read only?
I'd never personally use something like this because I don't see what it offers over doing dev in a linux VM, and setting folders to read only with chattr.
Most solutions can be engineered with standard Linux tools.