Do cloud agents always end up installing something on the customer's machine?
NoDrummer9540 · reddit · 2026-10-01
A developer probes the messy reality behind clean cloud-agent pitches: if an agent needs access to files on a customer's laptop that change throughout the day, re-uploading zips is impractical, so you end up shipping a local component, requesting permissions, and keeping a daemon running — which invites questions from the customer's IT department, and nobody clear owns maintaining that local piece. The author wonders whether there's a real service to build on the execution side, or whether it means volunteering to maintain other people's computers. He asks developers who've shipped agents needing local files or internal app access what they actually installed client-side, or whether they avoided installs entirely.
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