Re:Ask HN: May an Agent accepts a license to produce a build?
by beepbooptheory on Saturday January 24, 2026 @09:46AM
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Wouldn't you want to be in control of your dependencies in this case anyway? Like why would you ever want it to autodownload sdkmanager? Doesn't this seem like bad idea?
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Re:Ask HN: May an Agent accepts a license to produce a build?
by storystarling on Saturday January 24, 2026 @10:29AM
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I think the architectural mistake is letting the agent execute the environment setup instead of just defining it. If you constrain the agent to generating a Dockerfile, you get a deterministic artifact a human can review before any license is actually accepted. It also saves a significant amount of tokens since you don't need to feed the verbose shell output back into the context loop.
Re:Ask HN: May an Agent accepts a license to produce a build?
by embedding-shape on Saturday January 24, 2026 @09:57AM
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For something you throw away next week, just need something simple and you run everything isolated? Why not?