Orbs

(ampcode.com)

29 points by tosh4 days ago

5 comments

  • fwlr2 hours ago
    So this product is a thin wrapper over a remote virtual machine, a new name for remote virtual machines, and an exhortation to not look inside or reason about remote virtual machines?<p>I feel like up until recently this would been pitched as “the missing UX&#x2F;DX for cloud compute”, or something. But instead now it’s marketed to this new trend where one should aggressively not understand the tower of abstractions one is standing on. Odd.
    • andai1 hour ago
      This is Apple&#x27;s entire business model.<p>Also most proprietary software, also most web-based software, also most APIs... also what my plumber does when I call him over!<p>(Also most hardware?)
      • fwlr1 hour ago
        I suppose it is only a new trend in engineering, not in the broader world.
  • PinkaDunka3 minutes ago
    This is ChatGPT Work, right?
  • hexomancer2 hours ago
    I think very soon big LLM providers (OpenAI et. al.) will provide a service like this. With the LLMs becoming faster, the agentic task completion bottleneck will soon move to the tool calls (both execution time and round-trip latency), so it makes sense to have a server host the project very close to the actual LLM doing the inference in order to minimize latency.
  • andai1 hour ago
    Well they nailed the headline: make the reader go &quot;wtf is Orbs&quot; so they have to click on it.
    • cassianoleal1 hour ago
      Wtf is Orbs?
      • jmiskovic1 hour ago
        A brand name for an agent in VM they spin up for you.
        • cassianoleal45 minutes ago
          Thanks! Saved me (and hopefully others) a click.
  • swiftcoder2 hours ago
    Can anyone name a non-threatening orb? All the orbs are can think of are decidedly palantir-like - ostensibly useful, but corrupted by dark magics...
    • andai1 hour ago
      In Spyro 2 you collect orbs to activate the portal to defeat the evil wizard guy.