The Tears of Donald Knuth
Summary
The article discusses Shuru, a local-first sandbox platform for AI agents on macOS, featuring ephemeral Linux VMs via Apple Virtualization, no Docker dependency, and checkpoint-based state management. It highlights an Apple Silicon native runtime, a simple CLI, and use cases for code execution, tool use, reproducible evaluations, and disposable development environments to enable safe, reproducible AI experimentation without Docker.