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/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.
This is ChatGPT Work, right?
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.
Well they nailed the headline: make the reader go "wtf is Orbs" so they have to click on it.
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...