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    Build a background coding agent that works while you sleep

    A 250-line self-hosted background coding agent. Label a GitHub issue with `agent`, wake up to a draft PR. ~$0.30/task. The snapshot, the agent loop, the webhook server, and the dead ends I'd save you from.

    Utpal Nadiger · June 1, 2026

    What it takes to run an AI coworker on iMessage

    Lessons from shipping Clawputer, a managed openclaw that lives in your iMessage. Patterns for VM lifecycle, versioning, OAuth integrations, and browser offloading when building AI coworkers on long-lived compute.

    Mohamed Habib · May 22, 2026

    Stop Treating Agent Sandboxes as Cattle

    A direct response to 'The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox.' Why credentials, hibernation, elasticity, and checkpoints make a persistent in-sandbox harness the better default.

    Utpal Nadiger · May 4, 2026

    The Race to Build the Next WordPress

    Agent harnesses are to this era what WordPress was to the early 2000s internet. The race to build the next one is already on.

    Igor Zalutski · April 19, 2026

    What "elastic compute" means in 2026

    From EC2 to agent sandboxes — how agents broke the compute paradigms we've relied on for 20 years, and what elasticity looks like now.

    Igor Zalutski · April 7, 2026

    Where Should the Agent(s) Live?

    Isolation models, agent placement tradeoffs, credential design, and sandbox lifecycle patterns for agentic systems.

    Utpal Nadiger, Mohamed Habib, Igor Zalutski · March 20, 2026

    Agent Execution Is the New HTTP Request

    From CGI scripts to serverless, web infrastructure evolved over 30 years. Now agents are taking us full circle - back to files and scripts.

    Igor Zalutski · March 17, 2026

    I Asked Opus 4.6 to Fingerprint Sandbox Vendors

    We fingerprinted 6 sandbox providers to understand their isolation models - from containers to microVMs to full hypervisors. Here's what we found.

    Mohamed Habib · March 17, 2026

    The Agentic Workload

    Agent code doesn't fit neatly into existing categories. It's not a traditional app, and it's not a CI job. It's something new.

    Igor Zalutski · March 15, 2026

    Building an Open Lovable - part 1

    A series to build a lovable clone to learn how lovable works under the hood using Claude Agent SDK and OpenComputer.

    Mohamed Habib · March 11, 2026