Agents no longer need setup: hand them a bare machine and they fetch everything themselves
vivekhaldar · x · 2026-09-20
The author recalls that not long ago, setting up agents meant manually checking for brew, ffmpeg, python and other dependencies. Now you just give an agent a bare machine and it fetches whatever it needs on its own — a short observation on how quickly agent autonomy and tool-use have improved.
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