Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem

A new Show HN project called Tilde.run is pitching a very comforting idea in a very chaotic AI moment: let an AI helper do work with your files and services, but keep everything inside a trackable sandbox so you can rewind mistakes. In plain English, it’s selling the dream of an AI that can touch real work stuff without turning your data into a horror story. And yes, some people were immediately into it. One early reaction said the versioned storage sandbox is the real magic here — basically, the feature that makes this feel different from the endless stream of “AI agent” tools flooding the internet.

But the comments did what comments do best: they threw cold water everywhere. One skeptic cut straight to the heart of the pitch: if the AI only changes files, sure, you can roll that back — but if it sends emails, edits outside systems, or does anything in the real world, then an “undo” button may not save you. That sparked the big tension of the thread: is this real safety, or just neat-looking safety?

Then came the trust drama. Another commenter side-eyed the hosted version, pointing out that the homepage asks for analytics while only the command-line tool and developer kit are open source. Translation for non-geeks: people like the idea, but they’re not eager to hand over the keys. And in the funniest grumpy subplot, one user basically said they’ve developed “AI landing page fatigue” — too many glossy demos, too many animations, too many promises. In other words: cool concept, but the crowd wants receipts, not vibes.