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102°Near Reinvention
Before

Muscle Memory Cache for Agents

After

Embedded Sandboxes for Agents

Full description — before

Butter is building an LLM proxy that records and deterministically replays tool call trajectories. Our goal is to get LLMs out of the hotpath for repetitive tasks, increasing speed, reducing variability, and eliminating token costs for the many cases that could have just been a script.

Full description — after

Butter is building bVisor, an incredibly lightweight sandbox runtime for AI agents. It embeds directly into your local process, providing a safe bash environment without the overhead of VMs or remote infra.

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AI Coding AssistantsLLM Development Tools
Summary

Butter pivoted from building an LLM proxy for caching/replaying tool trajectories to building a lightweight sandbox runtime for AI agents - completely different technical product solving a different problem.

Detected today · 2026-04-01