Not to dismiss this, but when I was working on a problem on Windows recently my LLM (6.1 Sol / oh-my-pi) ended up doing the same thing, although it used Qemu and snapshots to accomplish that.

Eventually it got to a point it could iterate very quickly and was really only constrained by total system RAM which meant a dozen at most copies could be running simultaneously.

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mcoliver 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same. It's quite remarkable. Two other things Claude and I have done. I have a spare workstation running proxmox in my garage. Claude can now create, snapshot, delete, extend, start, and restart vms. It's been great. I also have skills that allow it to spin up spot instances when I need to test things that rely on hardware I don't have like certain Nvidia gpus or 100gb networking. What a time to be alive.

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trollbridge 2 hours ago | parent [-]

To be fair, you never needed LLMs to be able to do all that.

	▲	mcoliver an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		True but it was a whole bunch of fragile scripts/functions with lots of ifs. I'll give you a real world example of what's different. Agent spins up a VM to run a build on windows. During the build it realizes it's out of disk space. Agent resizes disk on demand. Build finishes and it launches the app. Runs some tests and realizes it's cpu and memory constrained. Adjust the cpu and memory and runs new tests. tears it down and sends the perf logs back to me. Or it looks at system resources and decides what other vms it can pause while it runs the tests and then turns them back on after. There are so many unknowns and the ability for the agents to dynamically adjust and make decisions allows for some really powerful autonomous workflows.
	▲	rsolva an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		To be fair, often you have good ideas, but not enough time. I have had a lot of fun having Qwen3.8 27b running at home, having it explore and implement ideas that was way to ambitious for the time I had available to tinker with Home Assistant and Proxmox. It is an enabler and can also be a good tutor, when used as such. I have learned a lot.
	▲	alasano an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"be able" implying capability rather than time constraints and opportunity cost which is what most people on here refer to when they mention something cool they're doing with LLMs that they weren't doing before.

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jadenlemmon an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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