Woah so cool! A bit tangential but I think a lot of us on HN are open source fans, do you have advice on how to find an open source idea which has potential to grow into a large project like yours?

I'd suggest look at your own problems. Tomas (my co-founder) and I built E2B back in 2023 because we needed a cloud computer for our agent back then.

yes i havent tried out the rest of them, i learned about the space mainly just by poking around these 2 agents that I use. It seems very fun though since theres lot of optimization problems at play. Ill check out your one too would be cool to see what apples virtualization framework is like!

well to be fair this was just what i could reach inside the sandbox by grepping around if they are doing something else behind the api i wouldnt be able to see it

in guessing the most important thing to get right for their target usecase is the computer use and from the tools i saw for that the computers they provision were requestable by the subagents so probably something cool going on there

I took a look inside the VMs that a couple of the agent platforms are using. TLDR is they use firecracker with memory in git. I'm a big fan of the memory in git part it would be cool to see how the git history looks after I use it for a longer period of time. This is my first blog, I'm trying to document things publically as I learn, next I'll look more closely at the providers they are using under the hood (eg. e2b) so feel free to give advice on what to look for!

How did you find their internal services ?

accessed the vm through my terminal through a websocket: https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/ws-term

so basically you convince the agent to run a script which allows you to get a “shell” and then from there i just grepped around and figured it out

Do you have an invite to instinct? :)

yes i think everyone gets 10 did u want one?

Yes, how can I reach out to you to get one :) thanks

does dms via https://x.com/rohanadwankar work?

Thank you. I think invite got cleared up and I got one automatically.

Hi, if possible, could I get one too? You can contact me at [email protected]

hey, i work at E2B, happy to answer any questions!

super cool product, any thoughts on adding native llm support to your sandboxes ?

my thoughts is that Firecracker might be not the best runtime for that, as it’s very minimal on devices it wants to support (famously no PCI out of the box)

you guys are awesome!

So cool!

Thanks!

Just curious, how do you know / why do you think it's written by AI? The bullet points?

For me, it could be:

> it's not better. it's different

> automation isn't lazy. it's sustainable

> it's not about gatekeeping. it's about making debugging possible

This is everywhere in the article.

hi this true! i personally typically write my diagram or add nodes in a text editor prior to customizing but I do realize that many would prefer to be able to do everything in the gui so I will start adding features to add nodes and initialize the diagram in the gui!

Yes that's essentially my thoughts though perhaps a later feature would be to support the tool customizing d2 files as well! I also think another part about starting with supporting mermaid syntax is that the AI coding agents seem to emphasize mermaid in particular [1] so if they are writing in that syntax anyways I feel it will be even more the norm.

[1] https://cursor.com/docs/configuration/tools/mermaid-diagrams

Thanks for sharing. One of the very fun parts of posting this for me was seeing how much bigger this niche was than I thought haha. D2 seems great and super featureful!

Thank you for making this and open sourcing it, the ecosystem for interactive editing of mermaid / diagrams is all the better thanks to your efforts.