I wonder how long it'll take (if it hasn't already) until the messaging around this inevitably moves on to "Do not self-host this, are you crazy? This requires console commands, don't be silly! Our team of industry-veteran security professionals works on your digital safety 24/7, you would never be able to keep up with the demands of today's cybersecurity attack spectrum. Any sane person would host their claw with us!"
Next flood of (likely heavily YC-backed) Clawbase (Coinbase but for Claws) hosting startups incoming?
What exactly are they self hosting here? Probably not the model, right? So just the harness?
That does sound like the worst of both worlds: You get the dependency and data protection issues of a cloud solution, but you also have to maintain a home server to keep the agent running on?
You have spend tens of thousands of dollars on hardware to approach the reasoning and tool call levels of SOTA models...so, casually mentioning "just use local LLM" is out of reach for the common man.
That's pretty much how it was in the 90s with computer tech. 10 years later we were watching cat videos on machines that dwarfed the computing power of what used to be servers.
That ship has sailed a long time ago. It's of course possible, if you are willing to invest a few thousand dollars extra for the graphics card rig + pay for power.
> but you also have to maintain a home server to keep the agent running on
I'm not fascinated by the idea that a lot of people here don't have multiple Mac minis or minisforum or beelink systems running at home. That's been a constant I've seen in tech since the 90s.
I already built an operator so we can deploy nanoclaw agents in kubernetes with basically a single yaml file. We're already running two of them in production (PR reviews and ticket triaging)
1. Another AI agent (actually bunch of folks in a 3rd-world country) to gatekeep/check select input/outputs for data leaks.
2. Using advanced network isolation techniques (read: bunch of iptables rules and security groups) to limit possible data exfiltration.
This would actually be nice, as the agent for whatsapp would run in a separate entity with limited network access to only whatsapp's IP ranges...
3. Advanced orchestration engine (read: crontab & bunch of shell scripts) that are provided as 1st-party components to automate day-to-day stuff.
Possibly like IFTTT/Zapier/etc. like integration, where you drag/drop objectives/tasks in a *declarative* format and the agent(s) figure out the rest...
Next flood of (likely heavily YC-backed) Clawbase (Coinbase but for Claws) hosting startups incoming?