Show HN: I built a smart proxy so your coding agent can run loose

A new Show HN project called trollbridge is pitching itself as the answer to a very real fear: what happens when you let an artificial intelligence coding helper loose on your computer? The tool acts like a checkpoint for anything the bot tries to send out to the internet, letting the human owner approve unknown destinations while the bot works freely on the machine itself. In plain English: your robot assistant can rummage around locally, but it has to ask before phoning home to unfamiliar places.

But the real action wasn’t the product page — it was the community instantly sharpening knives. One of the biggest jokes was brutally simple: if you need an AI "advisor" to decide whether another AI should be trusted online, what could possibly go wrong? That spawned the thread’s best eyebrow-raise, with one commenter basically asking whether the watchdog AI might start making its own calls. Oof.

Then came the style police. Another commenter went straight for the throat, accusing the site copy of sounding like AI-written slop and arguing that if the creator couldn’t write a human-sounding readme, the code itself becomes harder to trust. That’s not a bug report — that’s a character attack. And for extra spice, someone tossed in the classic startup-world reality check: isn’t this just like Docker sandboxes? Suddenly the launch wasn’t just about safety; it was about originality, credibility, and whether anyone wants an AI hall monitor supervising an AI intern.