An LLM cleans his dev machine's disk every day, deleting other tools' leftovers

Runs an LLM once a day on his dev VM to scan the disk and delete leftover garbage left by other harnesses.

How it works

An LLM runs once a day on the dev VM
Scans the disk
Deletes leftover garbage left by other harnesses

Why it’s worth knowing

The mess being cleaned is made by other agents, so this is agents tidying after agents.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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