What's this about?
The essay predicts persistent agents will move from laptops into isolated cloud environments that can restart, limit networks and protect local credentials.
What is a microVM boundary?
Each agent gets a small virtual machine with its own kernel. A compromise stays inside that guest instead of reaching the host that holds other users and services.
What's the community saying?
HN 51 points, 118 comments at selection time.
- Readers agree local credentials make long-running laptop agents risky.
- Some say agents need controlled collaboration, not total isolation.
- A large sub-thread debates provider lock-in, hidden harnesses and the essay's personifying metaphor.