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Where Does the Coding Agent Actually Live?
Episode 5523
Published 3 weeks, 2 days ago
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Inference was never local — what's moving is the agent process, the filesystem it touches, and the tool runtime. This episode unpacks Daniel's three-way fork: a local-network appliance reached over Tailscale, a vendor-provided SaaS workspace, or a VPS you provision yourself. We look at Anthropic's remote control and why its own docs route you to cloud sessions the moment you want parallelism, bossanova and CCBot as local-appliance examples, Coder's quiet rename from Cloud Development Environment to Agentic Development Environment, and ShellTeam's deliberately sandbox-free VPS command center. Plus the sharpest point in the whole debate: MCP servers that touch your local network, and why round-tripping to the cloud to toggle a light is absurd.
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