What happens when a chat gets its own computer

Most chats answer with text. You still have to copy the code, run it, fix the error and try again.

I wanted to see what happens if the chat does that part itself. So I built one that gets its own computer for every task. You type what you want, it does the work, and you get the result.

It is free while in beta. You sign in with GitHub. No card.

Try it: https://chat.flisk.si/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=launch-1k

How it works

Every task goes through three steps.

1. Plan. It reads your request and writes the steps it will take.
2. Run. It does the steps on a real sandbox computer. It can write files, run programs and start a web server. The sandbox is thrown away afterwards, so nothing touches your machine.
3. Result. You get the output, plus a live link if the task made a website.

You can watch the steps while they run, so you see what it is doing and why.

One worked example: make a website

I typed:

Make a landing page for a dog-walking business in Lisbon. One page, a price list, a contact button.

What happened:

• It planned four steps: layout, copy, styling, publish.
• It wrote the page in the sandbox and started it.
• It gave me a live link to open in the browser.

Then I asked "make the price list a table and use green instead of blue". It changed the same page and the link showed the new version.

That is the point of giving it a computer. A normal chat would have handed me a block of HTML and left me to figure out where to put it.

Other things to ask it

• "Scrape this page and give me a CSV."
• "Turn this folder of notes into one clean document."
• "Check this script and tell me why it is slow."

The limits

I would rather you hear these from me than find them:

• It is in beta, so things break. If one does, tell me what you typed.
• Free use has a daily limit. A normal first task fits inside it.
• It can be wrong. Open the result and check it before you rely on it.
• It works on what you give it in the chat. It does not have access to your accounts or files.

Tell me what broke

The fastest way to improve this is people trying things I did not think of. Try one task, then tell me in the comments:

• What did you ask it?
• Did it do what you wanted?
• Where did it get stuck?

Link again: https://chat.flisk.si/?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=launch-1k