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NegativeLatency 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for loca...

It’s nice having control and ownership of your software.

I’m assuming it’s similar to why people run plex, web servers, file sharing, etc

Also personally I’d rather not pay monthly fees for stuff if it can be avoided.

paxys 6 months ago | [–]

These agents are all calling APIs that are well beyond your control. How does it matter whether a thin CLI wrapper is running on your computer or not?

mikodin 6 months ago | [–]

Piggybacking on this - I think it well equips us for a future when local models are stronger. I for one am grateful for efforts like these

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