Erik doubts that moving persistent development boxes into the cloud is the best long-term agent-compute model and favors durable agents that launch short-lived sandboxes for commands and snapshot them afterward.

“I don't know if, like, long term that's, like, the right way to think about, you know, on, like, compute for agents. I, I think a much better model would be you're gonna have these, like, very long-running agents whi-which almost, like, to me, are, like, kind of durable execution workflows. Like, they're gonna run, you know, twenty-four/seven.”

“You know, every once in a while they're gonna run commands and, and, you know, having the ability to, like, spin up a sandbox in, you know, a hundred millisecond, run a few commands, and then, like, shut it down and, like, snapshot it.”