Sandbox readiness is the new bottleneck in agentic apps; git as state primitive
w_hgm · x · 2026-09-04
The author argues that as inference gets faster, the main UX factor in agentic apps is how quickly the sandbox is ready. A quoted post proposes betting on git as the state primitive in sandboxes: resuming a new sandbox from your last state is easy using ephemeral branches in code storage, with ongoing work to make this as fast as spinning up a fresh sandbox.
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