Building my self-hosted cloud coding agent

https://stanislas.blog/2026/02/netclode-self-hosted-cloud-coding-agent/

by angristan • 6 months ago

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Soerensen• 6 months ago

The JuiceFS + copy-on-write snapshot approach is clever - being able to restore full workspace state (including Docker images and mise-installed tools) to any previous turn is something the commercial cloud agents don't offer.

The warm pool pattern for Kata VMs makes a huge difference for UX. Cold-starting a microVM every time would kill the conversational flow. Curious how many warm VMs you typically keep ready and what the memory overhead looks like per idle VM?

One observation from the SDK comparison: the harness quality seems to matter as much as the model. OpenCode with local models struggles not because the models can't do tool calls, but because smaller context windows make the harness's prompt engineering fall apart. Wonder if there's room for a "lightweight harness" optimized for local inference with aggressive context management.

Building my self-hosted cloud coding agent

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