alt Hacker NewsIf the agent is running on your machine, it will suspend when you put your laptop asleep. I prefer using a remote Linux VM to let the coding agent keep working.
I’m quite happy with exe.dev for this. My laptop is asleep upstairs but I have an agent coding away in a browser tab on the tablet I’m using. I could also check on it from my phone.
But it might also be nice if a setup similar to exe.dev were available for self-hosting. I have a Mac Mini that I don’t really use much.
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matheusmoreira • yesterday at 3:03 PM
> it will suspend when you put your laptop asleep
It is possible to simply not do that. Laptops work just fine as servers. They even have a builtin monitor and UPS.
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mswphd • yesterday at 3:01 PM
https://paseo.sh/ supports self-hosting, though I've only used it a mild amount tbh.
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celrenheit • yesterday at 5:05 PM
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Another +1 to cloud sandboxes (and exe.dev) vs laptop sandbox.
Runs 24/7 completely air gapped from your laptop.
You also want a service proxy so the sandbox can access GitHub or Stripe without keys accessible to the agent. I haven't seen many of the laptop sandbox tools do this, where exe.dev does it out of the box with their "integrations".
I usually drop my own binary agent coding toolkit inside the sandbox so I have things like a code browsing and review right there in every sandbox too.
https://github.com/housecat-inc/scratch
Like you I also have a Mac Mini I've thought about making into my own 24/7 dev box, but building this vs buying 50 VMs from exe.dev for $20/mo doesn't add up for me.