Re:Show HN: State of the Art Open-source alternative to Chat...
by tcwd on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @05:39PM
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Hi there, I'm Edward, one of the co-founders. The OS that the agent operates in is a fresh confined environment, and not a company or personal computer.
Re:Show HN: State of the Art Open-source alternative to Chat...
by dotancohen on Thursday July 31, 2025 @02:23AM
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So how can it do anything useful without access to actual data?
Can it be installed on a conventional (personal or work) desktop?
Re:Show HN: State of the Art Open-source alternative to Chat...
by wsycharles0o on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @06:29PM
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I would assume this capability is meant to be used in a docker?
Re:Show HN: State of the Art Open-source alternative to Chat...
by tcwd on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @06:51PM
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We explored using a containerized VM that exposed agentic controls in the open source version, but generally found that the cloud-based solutions were much faster to get started and easier to work with. Our repo contains adapters that work with several of the most popular cloud-hosted VM-as-a-service infra providers.
Definitely would be happy to be wrong and missed something here!
Re:Show HN: State of the Art Open-source alternative to Chat...
by xnx on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @05:30PM
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Power and risk go hand in hand. Best approach is probably to run in a VM.
Re:Show HN: State of the Art Open-source alternative to Chat...
by ElasticBottle on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @06:01PM
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Yeap, that's exactly where the agents run in
This seems pretty scary. Just recently an AI wiped a company database: https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-d...