This is very cool. I think the primary innovation here is twofold:

1. Remote agent - it's a containerized environment where the agent can run loose and do whatever - it doesn't need approval for user tasks because it's in an isolated environment (though it could still accidentally do destructive actions like edit git history). I think this alone is a separate service that needs to be productionized. When I run claude code in my terminal, automatically spin up the agent in an isolated environment (locally or remotely) and have it go wild. Easy to run things in parallel

2. Deep integration with fly. Everyone will be trying to embed AI deep into their product. Instead of having to talk to chatgpt and copy paste output, I should be able to directly interact with whatever product I'm using and interact with my data in the product using tools. In this case, it's deploying my web app

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indigodaddy 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

look into Kasm workspaces.. great way to spin up remote docker-based linux desktops, and works great as an AI dev environment that you can use wherever you happen to be. There is homedir persistence, and package persistence can be achieved via some extra configuration that allows for Brew homedir-based package persistence.

https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/kasm

https://www.reddit.com/r/kasmweb/comments/1l7k2o8/workaround...

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brainless 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have recently been working with Google Jules and it has a similar approach. It spins up VMs and goes through tasks given.

It does not handle any infrastructure, so no hosting. It allows me to set multiple small tasks, come back and check, confirm and move forward to see a new branch on GitHub. I open a PR, do my checks (locally if I need to) and merge.

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risyachka 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

>> Remote agent - it's a containerized environment where the agent can run loose and do whatever

How is this innovation?

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kasey_junk 2 days ago | parent [-]

Many people have not experienced the async agent workflow yet and fairly the major providers didn’t have offerings for them until a month or two ago.

It’s in fact one of my predictors for if they are going to be enthusiastic about agents or not.

And you wouldn’t think containerization would be a big leap but this stuff is so new and moving so fast that combining them with existing tech can surprise people.

	▲	throwaway314155 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It's less innovative and more trendy. A lot of the fly integration can be achieved by simply asking claude code to look up the docs for the fly cli tool.