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.

+1. OP is clearly not read for the Agentic Era

I have decided to draw an arbitrary line at mammals, just because you gotta put a line somewhere and move on with your life. Mammals shouldn’t be mistreated, for almost any reason.

Sometimes the whole animal kingdom, sometimes all living organisms, depending on context. Like, I would rather not harm a mosquito, but if it’s in my house I will feel no remorse for killing it.

LLMs, or any other artificial “life”, I simply do not and will not care about, even though I accept that to some extent my entire consciousness can be simulated neuron by neuron in a large enough computer. Fuck that guy, tbh.

At least you’re honest, I prefer that to people making up BS justifications for things.

What about being alive and suffering just a little bit?

Mostly ok.

Does what it says on the tin.