Could someone explain to me what the general workflow is now that people are converging to? I haven't really been catching up with the AI ecosystem but I was looking into agent sandboxes and VM's recently and there's a ton of these startups and tools now. Is giving the agent a temporary scratchbox really that valuable?
I've been still just like, making VM's with proxmox, then putting my agent in the machine and letting it run free (with my dotfiles setup script making dev env pretty much free, though I could also just make a VM snapshot). What's wrong with that? Is that not the scalable solution for enterprise rn?
The goal is "ticket in JIRA -> solution in production" without human intervention. Right now agentic frameworks are multiplying to bring us closer to that solution like JavaScript frameworks did ~10y ago. We still haven't uncovered the "React" of this space yet, the one that business decides is good enough to standardize on.
We started building that but it quickly turned out to be too narrow. Often we want agents to do task that have no input ticket and often the output is not a code change (Slack bot, incident investigatior, scheduled daily tasks, ...)
Correct and that is why bash coding agents like pi.dev got things completely backwards with their anti-minimalist bloated core tools.
No, giving the agent access to every single command on the system is not minimalist. It is actively detrimental if you want to do more than just attended coding with the agent.
I don't mind that as long as that system gets regularly wiped. If you don't wipe it, you can't reasonably measure the actual output and it's pets Vs cattle all over again, only with agents.
sigbottle · · focus · HN ↗
I've been still just like, making VM's with proxmox, then putting my agent in the machine and letting it run free (with my dotfiles setup script making dev env pretty much free, though I could also just make a VM snapshot). What's wrong with that? Is that not the scalable solution for enterprise rn?
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ngruhn · · focus · HN ↗
We started building that but it quickly turned out to be too narrow. Often we want agents to do task that have no input ticket and often the output is not a code change (Slack bot, incident investigatior, scheduled daily tasks, ...)
imtringued · · focus · HN ↗
No, giving the agent access to every single command on the system is not minimalist. It is actively detrimental if you want to do more than just attended coding with the agent.
vidarh · · focus · HN ↗