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- I’ve used a few of the hosted VM options for this like Coder and really dislike having to do my work in a web browser.
This is why I made ParaSpace (https://paraspace.dev/)
With ParaSpace I can use a real terminal and my normal tooling to develop locally on fast booting isolated containers. I even get to bring my own dotfiles.
by jchook - Well they nailed the headline: make the reader go "wtf is Orbs" so they have to click on it.by andai
- It sounds like great engineering, but everyone in the coding agent space is building the same thing. And big labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have more money to burn. Cloud agents that run in VMs are being offered from everyone from VPS and infra companies to the frontier labs.by aarondong
- Reminds me of fly.io's sprites (https://sprites.dev), but with a custom-built layer of UI, harness, and features.by rmsaksida
- Can anyone name a non-threatening orb? All the orbs are can think of are decidedly palantir-like - ostensibly useful, but corrupted by dark magics...by swiftcoder
- They've basically come up with what exe.dev has been doing for awhile now?
Except, exe.dev is more about, you have a VM and can do LLM work on it. Orbs seems to be minimizing the VM machinery more and making it about the "agentic experience."
by rsyring - I think very soon big LLM providers (OpenAI et. al.) will provide a service like this. With the LLMs becoming faster, the agentic task completion bottleneck will soon move to the tool calls (both execution time and round-trip latency), so it makes sense to have a server host the project very close to the actual LLM doing the inference in order to minimize latency.by hexomancer
- So this product is a thin wrapper over a remote virtual machine, a new name for remote virtual machines, and an exhortation to not look inside or reason about remote virtual machines?
I feel like up until recently this would been pitched as “the missing UX/DX for cloud compute”, or something. But instead now it’s marketed to this new trend where one should aggressively not understand the tower of abstractions one is standing on. Odd.
by fwlr