Simon Willison Tests smolvm's Hardware-Isolated Sandbox

Simon Willison used the Fable 5 research agent to evaluate smolvm 1.8.3, concluding that its hardware-level isolated code sandbox is well-suited for the task, with a cold start of just 0.6 seconds.

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