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Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Post by rao-v »

_doctor_love wrote: post #51

My current power move in the age of AI: do nothing. I had an idea like this and thought I could vibe code it, but then I figured someone else would care more and do it first. I was right! This looks like a great app and I'm excited to try it out. Free idea: I would like to be able to "jail" an agent inside a VM and send instructions to the harness from outside the VM to agent(s) installed inside. Ideally there is no…

I threw something like this together w a simple browser front end, mostly because I like running mid to large open models but can’t trust them to not go insane. Will share at some point soon

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Post by tomgp »

Klonoar wrote: post #66
danpalmer wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coding yes, copywriting, design, identity, no. Using AI doesn't mean giving up on quality, unless you don't care about quality. Most of these issues come from folks who don't really care about quality and ship the first slop that comes out.

> Using AI doesn't mean giving up on quality Look, I'm as anti-AI as the next guy but their homepage is good. They didn't compromise on quality. Call a spade a spade.

I think the issue is that the prose on the homepage gives off AI marketing BS "Everything you'd expect. Nothing you don't." "Native down to the pixels" etc. in an age where the web is stuffed full of low value llm generated content this is a strong negative signal for me (and i suspect others). No reflection on the app itself which I've yet to try but seems like a great idea

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Post by RossBencina »

danpalmer wrote: post #43
throwitaway222 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we're past the point where agentic coding is a given now.

Coding yes, copywriting, design, identity, no. Using AI doesn't mean giving up on quality, unless you don't care about quality. Most of these issues come from folks who don't really care about quality and ship the first slop that comes out.

> Most of these issues come from folks who don't really care about quality and ship the first slop that comes out.

Brings to mind The Show's "ugly MySpace" episode: https://archive.org/details/zefrank-theshow-083

It would be nice if everyone prioritised, and was capable of, shipping polished products. But more likely the apps you're bemoaning come from folks who are not product designers. Even prior to genAI there were plenty of developers (myself included) who had patchy competence in some subset of {copywriting, documentation information architecture, visual design, identity, UI/UX, ...}. I know good developers for whom UI coherence is "not their problem," although they know well enough that it needs to be someone's problem. "Programmer art" is also a thing. I would argue that the non-coding parts of many open-source projects are what lets them down, and when it is good it is usually documentation that impresses me the most. But I think Ze Frank's view might be that, given the sudden drop in barriers to entry, it is amazing that everyone is having a go and trying to express themselves.

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Post by amelius »

thefourthchime wrote: post #19
simonw wrote: post #3

This looks like a really solid app. I like that it's 17 MB and uses the ContainerAPIClient library directly. 28 commits in 3 days, 5,015 lines of Swift, every commit "Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5". Also neat that it's signed/notarized. I installed it and it downloaded the necessary container platform stuff on first launch. Suggestion: add a getting started tutorial to the site which suggests an image to try out and…

The AI-Maxing copy on the website kind of gave it away. Doesn't mean is not a great app though!

Can't someone vibe-code a MacOS that runs on Linux?

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Post by ClikeX »

routelastresort wrote: post #60
samgranieri wrote: post #50

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I can’t speak about orbstack, but I’ve worked with docker desktop and podman desktop for years on macOS. Those programs start up a virtual machine that consistently eats ram regardless of whether or not you are running containers in it. Apple container looks lighter weight. In the age of ridiculous ram costs, you gotta save resources.

In addition to memory saver that another person replied about, Docker Desktop also has an MCP server functionality and marketplace (almost all free) and huge AI focus. You can hardly compare it to the others at this point. I was doing the following at the same time on my MBP this week: * running a bunch of containers + MCP servers for Claude and Codex on Docker Desktop * heavily using Claude Code with Fable and packe…

> if you're a Dev you should have a nice laptop with 32-64GB or more, Apple Silicon Max CPU, etc.

Really depends on what you're building, to be honest.

Re: Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

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Post by andrew-waters »

_doctor_love wrote: post #51

My current power move in the age of AI: do nothing. I had an idea like this and thought I could vibe code it, but then I figured someone else would care more and do it first. I was right! This looks like a great app and I'm excited to try it out. Free idea: I would like to be able to "jail" an agent inside a VM and send instructions to the harness from outside the VM to agent(s) installed inside. Ideally there is no…

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