A coding agent that can install packages, start databases and run shell commands…
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A coding agent that can install packages, start databases and run shell commands probably deserves its own machine. That is essentially the problem Tensorlake is working on. It gives agents stateful Linux sandboxes backed by Firecracker microVMs, so they can work with files, launch processes and execute generated code inside an isolated environment rather than directly on the host. The more interesting part starts when that environment becomes expensive to prepare. Suppose an agent has already cloned a large repo, installed the dependencies, compiled everything, started Postgres and reprodu
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