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Terretta | on: Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning
Arguably, even without LLM, you too should be dev-ing inside a VM...

https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant is still a thing.

The market for Cowork is normals, getting to tap into a executive assistant who can code. Pros are running their consumer "claws" on a separate Mac Mini. Normals aren't going to do that, and offices aren't going to provision two machines to everyone.

The VM is an obvious answer for this early stage of scaled-up research into collaborative computing.

messh | parent | next
Yeah, very easy to do today. May VPS providers help with this, checkout:

https://exe.dev

https://sprites.dev

https://shellbox.dev

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mihaelm | parent | next
I prefer devcontainers for more involved project setups as they keep it lighter than introducing a VM. It’s also pretty easy to work with Docker (on your host) with the docker-outside-of-docker feature.

However, I’m also curious about using NixOS for dev environments. I think there’s untapped potential there.

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hirvi74 | parent
I concur. I don't want to install libraries on my host machine that I won't use for anything other than development, e.g., Node.js.

On macOS, Lima has been a godsend. I have Claude Code in an image, and I just mount the directory I want the VM to have access to. It works flawlessly and has been a replacement for Vagrant for me for some time. Though, I owe a lot to Vagrant. It was a lifesaver for me back in the day.