Orbs

So this product is a thin wrapper over a remote virtual machine, a new name for remote virtual machines, and an exhortation to not look inside or reason about remote virtual machines?

I feel like up until recently this would been pitched as “the missing UX/DX for cloud compute”, or something. But instead now it’s marketed to this new trend where one should aggressively not understand the tower of abstractions one is standing on. Odd.

I think very soon big LLM providers (OpenAI et. al.) will provide a service like this. With the LLMs becoming faster, the agentic task completion bottleneck will soon move to the tool calls (both execution time and round-trip latency), so it makes sense to have a server host the project very close to the actual LLM doing the inference in order to minimize latency.

Well they nailed the headline: make the reader go "wtf is Orbs" so they have to click on it.

Can anyone name a non-threatening orb? All the orbs are can think of are decidedly palantir-like - ostensibly useful, but corrupted by dark magics...