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Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by js2 »

aspectrr wrote: post #2

Hey HN, My name is Collin and I'm working on fluid.sh ( https://fluid.sh ) the Claude Code for Infrastructure. What does that mean? Fluid is a terminal agent that do work on production infrastructure like VMs/K8s cluster/etc. by making sandbox clones of the infrastructure for AI agents to work on, allowing the agents to run commands, test connections, edit files, and then generate Infra-as-code like an Ansible Playbo…

You might want to remove that `.DS_Store` from the root of the repo and add `.DS_Store` to your global git ignore.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by cortesoft »

pxc wrote: post #105
cortesoft wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my first professional coding jobs was in 2007 when Facebook first introduced 'Facebook Apps'. I worked for a startup making a facebook app, and EVERY SINGLE app company had the same monetization strategy: Selling ads for other facebook apps. So the lifecycle of an app would be: 1) Create your game/quiz/whatever app. 2) Pay a successful app $x per install, and get a bunch of app installs. 3) Put all sorts of sc…

Aren't most ads in scummy mobile games ads for other scummy mobile games, to this very day?

Yes, but those apps also have scummy microtransactions, so at least there is SOME outside revenue entering the system.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by verdverm »

aspectrr wrote: post #39
amanzi wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you not put a description like this on your actual website? Your homepage does not explain anything about what this actually does. Are you really expecting infrastructure engineers to install your app with a bash command after only providing the following information? Claude Code for infrastructure. Debug, act, and audit everything Fluid does on your infrastructure. Create sandboxes from VMs, investigate, p…

True. Tried to make it simpler but clearly not a good enough job!

It reads like a blog post, not a landing page

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by verdverm »

JMiao wrote: post #109
cortesoft wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my first professional coding jobs was in 2007 when Facebook first introduced 'Facebook Apps'. I worked for a startup making a facebook app, and EVERY SINGLE app company had the same monetization strategy: Selling ads for other facebook apps. So the lifecycle of an app would be: 1) Create your game/quiz/whatever app. 2) Pay a successful app $x per install, and get a bunch of app installs. 3) Put all sorts of sc…

Hate to break it to you, but it’s still going on, just outside the fb app api.

The recent YC -> Circle -> Coinbase -> YC comes to mind

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by JimDabell »

aspectrr wrote: post #2

Hey HN, My name is Collin and I'm working on fluid.sh ( https://fluid.sh ) the Claude Code for Infrastructure. What does that mean? Fluid is a terminal agent that do work on production infrastructure like VMs/K8s cluster/etc. by making sandbox clones of the infrastructure for AI agents to work on, allowing the agents to run commands, test connections, edit files, and then generate Infra-as-code like an Ansible Playbo…

An agent that runs things in remote sandboxes to set things up doesn’t really fit with Infrastructure as Code.

Lately I have been setting up Pulumi stacks in ephemeral AWS accounts managed by AWS Organizations and working on a Kubernetes cluster locally with Tilt. So far, Claude is pretty good with those things. It seems to have pretty good knowledge of Pulumi, basic knowledge of Tilt, and good knowledge of Kubernetes. It’s a little out of date on some things and needs reminding to RTFM, but it can get a lot done by itself. If it were a real point of friction, a cheat sheet (sorry, “skill”) would be enough to solve the majority of issues.

The example you provide seems to be more along the lines of SSHing into remote boxes and setting things up manually. That’s not really helpful when you want to work on repeatable infra. You try to distinguish yourself from generating Terraform etc., but actually that’s what’s valuable in my experience.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by uoaei »

irl_zebra wrote: post #31
levkk wrote: post #16

So... I already tell Claude Code to do this. Just run kubectl for me please and figure out why my helm chart is broken. Scary? A little but it's doing great. Not entirely sure why a specialized tool is needed when the general purpose CLI is working.

I've noticed a lot of LLM-based tools that are essentially this sort of thing. Just a slightly more specific prompt wrapper around the core capability that can already do the thing. It's so bad.

That has been the case this entire time. The "ChatGPT-wrapper" startups were little more than a webapp frontend for ChatGPT with a clever prompt.
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