dregitsky

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by dregitsky 19d ago
Devin Automations is the most obvious one: solid UX, but can get very expensive to run. There are also a bunch of newer startups in this space. I'm building one myself, https://boxes.dev -- we're very early but buildin
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by dregitsky 20d ago
> The only difference is to what degree they wield the tariff hammer, and in which direction it is swung. I mean that's the point, no? Swing the hammer carefully at a nail or with maximum force at your own leg? Or to drop the metaph
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by dregitsky 21d ago
Yeah, it's kinda scary. I don't know if you even need open weight self hosted models for this sort of "AI worm" (though they def make it harder to kill). Like for example: - AI agent finds and uses API keys or AI subscri
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by dregitsky 1mo ago
Yep fair point. In my case I don't think codex team was really considering outside contributor PRs except bugfixes, plus my idea of "plan mode" was prob not what they wanted to ship in their product. But maybe I should have t
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by dregitsky 1mo ago
For boxes.dev we use E2B - they had everything we needed at the time. I'd love a standardized API / marketplace, but more just to try out new providers with differentiated features or pricing - we probably wouldn't be switchi
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by dregitsky 1mo ago
Yeah I think this is changing, fast. 100% agree on "clone X and tell me how it works". I'd also add: "clone X and see how it does Y; use that as design reference for building feature Z" if licenses permit. On modify
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by dregitsky 2mo ago
These tools all assume you have machines to run the agents on. But for parallel agents I'm pretty convinced you want each agent on its own isolated devbox running your dev environment (not e.g. worktrees on one box) - which isn't
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by dregitsky 3mo ago
Thanks! We aggressively spin down idle boxes. We'll put any box to sleep where the agent has finished its turn and you're not connected, and then we'll wake it again if you connect (firecracker VMs can sleep/wake very qu
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by dregitsky 3mo ago
Thanks! Longer term it's hard to say if everything 100% moves to the cloud. I'd guess that some things stay local (e.g. if you need your local hardware or are very are hands-on iterating with the code). But at the moment the avera
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by dregitsky 3mo ago
Yes it definitely sped up development! The main wins were around parallelization and autonomy: 1) full isolation (filesystem + compute per thread) 2) agents having a working dev environment that runs our app 3) being able to close our lapto
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by dregitsky 3mo ago
Nice! We love hearing about personal setups to solve these same problems. One difference between boxes.dev and your setup is that we spawn an exact copy of the main box for each agent thread, so it's totally isolated. But doing paralle
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by dregitsky 3mo ago
Thanks! We were also excited about Sprites when it launched but it didn't quite work for us either. And Cursor Cloud Agents is definitely pretty similar -- one area where we differ is that Cursor only uses their custom harness, and we
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by dregitsky 3mo ago
> What kind of cpu/memory do the vms get? Default is 4 vCPU / 8 GB memory but it's configurable at the team/project level (can go higher). > Is there a way to define the template that's used, so I can say to a
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by dregitsky 3mo ago
Nope you're exactly right - we're using microVMs today (Firecracker VMs via E2B) and running that same shape but on customer-owned machines is definitely one approach we're looking into. And thank you!
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by dregitsky 3mo ago
To add to what @nab said, the longest ("overnight") runs are usually after going back and forth to build out a big multi-phase plan doc -- especially when each phase has an extensive manual test plan (agent runs the app in a brows
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by dregitsky 3mo ago
It's just one hour of runtime. But we put the machines to sleep very quickly once the agent finishes its work, and then wake when you interact in the UI (e.g. terminal, filesystem, send the agent a followup). We're running on fire
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by dregitsky 3y ago
http://www.plottingtool.com/app.html It's a fully client-side, Tableau-inspired data visualization & exploration tool for CSV / tabular data. I built it around 7 years ago with just ES6 and d3.js (no React etc
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by dregitsky 13y ago
Actually a single water molecule is held together by covalent bonds between the O and two H's, and hydrogen bonds (not Van der Waals) are the intermolecular forces responsible for the properties like surface tension and high boiling po
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by dregitsky 14y ago
We might not need the government to fully subsidize healthcare to improve things though. Prices are set so high that hospitals - even nonprofit ones - have huge profit margins (this is better stated in the original [now-paywalled] TIME cove
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by dregitsky 14y ago
With restaurant bills, things get rather complicated when everyone orders different items, someone bought a Groupon, etc. Unless people are OK with over/under paying, a bill splitting app can be pretty useful to figure out what everyone act
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by dregitsky 14y ago
Not that it'd help you specifically, but I've found that working with someone else can be really beneficial for getting things finished. For me it was great for keeping stuff on track and staying accountable when it comes to finishing parts