CEO at @usetoyo. Prev founded @pusher, @thoughtbot
London, England
Joined November 2006
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Can Codex computer use work in a separate virtual desktop space @thsottiaux ? That would solve the biggest issue today when it’s working at the same time you are.
been slinging csv files more doing gtm, and always hated having to boot excel just to view and edit a csv.
1h later and claude gives us Seesvee: a simple macos csv editor: github.com/dctanner/seesvee
built with rust and @zeddotdev gpui so it's super fast.
Here's how I believe @cloudflare can win the agent economy
I'm at the point where I would pay thousands per month if I could have Astra Ultrafast as my daily driver
Damien C. Tanner retweeted
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are:
• Proprietary data
• Network effects
• A physical component
If @Cloudflare can solve agent browser access, so that websites using Cloudflare can safely accept agents, and agents running on Cloudflare can access websites without being blocked, it's going to be the biggest win of the decade.
I created an open source muse/brok bot/claw that looks like a native iOS app as a fun weekend project.
But since codex and clade have hobbled their computer use, and cloud browsers are getting blocked constantly, I’ve been using Jelly as my daily driver.
Own your own harness!
I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly.
You asked for it so I delivered.
🪼 Jelly is your open source grok bot/muse/dots.
github.com/dctanner/jelly
It’s made for people building their own personal software (aka jellyware). It best used @levelsio style building and running your apps on your own hardware or VPS.
We replaced VMs in @usetoyo with an S3 backed FS (rolled our own). Huge cost reduction and speed ups.
You probably don’t need a vm!
seems obvious to everyone around me that sandboxes are on their way out. we hear too many stories about reliability, capacity, broken sandboxes that need manual intervention -- plus they are way too expensive for what they provide.
the future for agents? workspaces.
your agent doesn't need a computer. it needs a place to store it's context, and the *tools* to manipulate that context each turn.
we're in the very early stages of the AI era. the simplest version of this pattern is just handing each agent a time-multiplexed VM, since that's the only thing that we have at hand right now.
over the next 12 months, you're going to see a rapid shift away from this model and towards what i call the "magic compute box".
rather than giving an agent a VM, you give it a set of tools (could be "bash", "python", "js", "read_file", "write_file") -- and you send those commands to a magic service in the cloud that manages to run them for you -- using the cheapest technology available (just-bash, wasm, or even Linux if really required) for each command invcation.
your agent doesn't want a computer that it can set a desktop background for, it wants a place where it can fire off an unlimited number of tool calls and have it update the context correctly.
Damien C. Tanner retweeted
Talent is bifurcating into AI Freaks and Everyone Else:
Founders spending evenings + weekends building agents, apps, etc to automate their lives are increasingly frustrated (and baffled) with employees who haven’t adopted AI for fun.
Normies without nerd/builder mindsets don’t really enjoy screwing around with computers in their spare time, and can’t think of endless creative uses of AI.
Astra loves to coordinate with other agents.
With out me ever asking it to or even building the ability for agents to message each other, Astra decided to build the feature into github.com/dctanner/jelly and start using it to coordinate its work. Wild times.
