Agents are getting more expensive:

You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools

The best AI tools will become far more expensive. Andy Warhol famously said:

Spent the day fiddling with agent isolation. At first I went down the rabbit hole of setting up a dev environment on an old macbook and acc,ssing it over wireguard, but the latency was annoying. Then I tried matchlock, which was promising but had weird build and control character issues. Finally, I went with docker sandbox, shich is good enough, although I had yo use a very dumb hack to get my config into the container. This is a massive product opportunity.

Now that I'm using agents more extensively, I'm thinking about moving my development environment to a VPS to make sure the agents don't send any important data (like my ssh keys) to my provider. Am I being paranoid, or has anyone else done this?

"[The] use of the word 'inevitable' obviates the need to consider any alternative, and a person confronting only a single possibility is well beyond any need to think." Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle