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How does that work? Are you using separate accounts? Do you just max out one of them and then switch to the other one?

We need to run a SotA coding agent basically 24/7 uninterrupted and so far we didn’t find an easy solution for this (you can get provisioned TPUs for Gemini on GCP but it costs a fortune).

Surely that’s possible for under $5k a month? $10k?


Is mobile dev more or less complex than web? If less, why? Genuinely asking. Seems like they’d have more or less the same constraints.

Killing bad people is changing the world for the better


I seriously doubt that’s the case. Someone will take offense in your killing, and come back for you and your tribe. And so round and round it goes.


Yeah, the ‘bad’ people.


Like journalists, or civilians in Gaza and Iran?


I agree with you completely, but the way I see it Anthropic are x100 worse when it comes to amplifying this doomer bs for marketing. It’s their whole shtick.


He’s a grown ass man tweeting in all lowercase, that’s all I needed to know.

I could more or less infer the rest from that.


Apparently it’s offensive to even try to make things people want


But doesn’t this defeat the purpose?

I would actually imagine this would be useful for observably in the sense that you can fork and then kill the loop in the fork, hop into an interactive session to figure out what it’s doing, while the loop is still running in the original instance.


I don't believe so. while it is technically easy to fork claude code running in these VMs, its not technically difficult to fork a conversation loop outside of the VM as well.

What matters is that its all forked atomically, which can be done with resources outside of the VM as well.


Fair enough, and I respect you pointing out the alternatives


Very nice, congrats!

One thing:

>Freestyle is the only sandbox provider with built-in multi-tenant git hosting — create thousands of repos via API and pair them directly with sandboxes for seamless code management.

Maybe I’m just stupid, but I don’t know what this means. I initially thought I’m your target audience but after failing to understand this part I’m thinking maybe I’m not? I honestly don’t know.


If git isn't for you we'd still love to support you. We believe to build the sandboxes for coding agents you also need to provide git repos for them so we do that as well. You can easily say give me this vm with these 3 repos and these permissions with us.

But that said, the sandbox stands on its own without it.


It’s difficult to understand the content and what the product actually is, as I’ve also mentioned in another reply. I think the product is probably great, but you need to improve the communication, it’s too abstract.

I don’t know what “give each sandbox a unique git repository” does for me in practice, what problem it solves.

You’re not providing any practical problems your product is intended to solve.


I think you should just explain that part more clearly: why would they want you to host git repos on their behalf.


Freestyle isn't designed for an individual engineer working on their Github repos. Its designed for platforms building coding agents that want to take the place of Github all together. Those platforms need some source of truth alongside the VMs, just like how you don't store all of your important documents on your personal computer. That is why we offer git.


How do you enforce the use of validation library with eslint?


Can't fully enforce that one, but I require only my specific HTTP router / SQL library to be used, and disallow the import of express / pg libraries via eslint. I also disable the use of JSON.parse via eslint. Combined with strong language in the CLAUDE.md, I haven't seen it get around my guard rails.


I really like the “functional core, imperative shell” approach, I try to use it whenever I can. I wish more non-FP languages had a way to mark a function as pure (and have this statically enforced).


Agreed. "Prefer pure functions, push side effects to the boundary (functional core, imperative)" is at the top of my CLAUDE.md these days.


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