Hands in the Swamp
The article discusses the author's experience with a software tool called Swamp, which aims to facilitate automation for AI agents. Initially skeptical, the author explores its functionalities and attempts to use it for testing Docker images. Despite facing challenges and frustrations, the author ultimately finds a solution to a naming issue that hindered the tool's performance.
- ▪The author first learned about Swamp from Adam Jacob at a conference.
- ▪After several attempts to use Swamp, the author struggled with various technical issues.
- ▪A critical problem was identified related to the naming of files, which prevented Swamp from recognizing them.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
This is weird, and I guess a sign of the weird times we live in. A pond of beautiful entities I’m not sure about the first time I heard about Swamp, I guess at the last CfgMgmtCamp in February directly from Adam Jacob. If you know Adam, you know that he is a brilliant guy with crazy ideas, sometimes too ahead of their time (Ok, he also did Chef, when there was already Puppet, messing up things in our placid community, but that’s another story). In the next months I kept on having indirect updates about Swamp from Paul Stack and his posts on LinkedIn but that remained the classic “apparently cool tool I should check out when I have time”. That time, of course, never arrives, even if I have plenty of it.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Hacker News (Newest).
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Hacker News (Newest)
