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bwmtoday at 5:39 PM2 repliesview on HN

You can totally ask an agent to orchestrate an existing cloud. But their APIs weren't designed for agentic orchestration, so it'll be more expensive in terms of context / turns (machine0 grammar is simple: new, ls, rm...).

The other thing is if you're running large workloads that span many machines (e.g. software factories, model training or RL environments), then over time you'll end up with orphaned artifacts that will need to be maintained (think security groups, volumes, elastic IPs etc).

Ultimately, most of our customers today just want to be able to spin up a powerful & reliable VM without worrying about DevOps or any other kind of maintenance :)


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xrisktoday at 5:55 PM

This seems like something that could exist as free software and can be easily vibecoded in the form of a pile of scripts. Thanks for the idea!

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