Golden VM image with differencing VHD/VHDX/delta disk. Build products can still get huge with debugging information, but debug info usually can compress 5:1 with fast compression (no entropy coder) if your VM's filesystem can support that.

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alkonaut 2 hours ago | parent [-]

But unless you want to also do all your "human" development inside a VM, how do you cooperate effectively with the agent(s)? I want to run my IDE directly on the hardware, not inside a VM.

So while the agents develop in a sandbox/VM, I still need to touch the same files, and see them in my IDE which is not in a VM. I suppose I could just _mount_ the same files (Documentation, git working copies etc) I work on as directories inside the VM, and then let it roam free in there, while I observe the same files on the host machine? Is this a common pattern?

	▲	dafelst an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This is exactly what I do - I run my agent inside an isolated podman container and mount the workspaces on a shared volume.