Posted by ozkatz 3 days ago
Are you able to set access read only?
I'd never personally use something like this because I don't see what it offers over doing dev in a linux VM, and setting folders to read only with chattr.
Most solutions can be engineered with standard Linux tools.
There are of course some projects where it can be useful, assuming it works properly and that's not a given either when it's vibecoded.
What I would use it for and why?
It reminds me of a blockchain - where it was a solution desperately looking for a problem. What problem does it solve?
1. to have a human in the loop to approve certain changes 2. rollback changes that end up being incorrect 3. allow reviewing the timeline and history to figure out what changed and how
Glad to see more takes in this space.
Building something for the same problem but more so from the perspective of self-hostable stateful sandboxes, and not just the filesystem (see https://bhatti.sh). What sandbox solution are you using here?
If you look at https://slicervm.com you'll see he's copied our terminal animation from the top of the website. Took out a monthly subscription for 1x month, cloned the majority of the UX/DX and way the guest agent works.
Had people reach out and flag it to me and I'm like "yes there's a reason for that"..
I think this is just par for the course in an AI slop world. Nothing to stop people imitating, copying, cloning with a good prompt and partial source / detailed docs available.
If I understand correctly what Tilde is doing is extending the concept of the sandbox in an operating system - filesystem, to data too.
So this is a sandbox environment someone would use for data heavy agentic workloads, is this correct?
Agents are really good at interacting with files and directories (text in, text out!). This adds a layer for those that allows managing that state in a transactional, versioned way.