Turn And Face The Strange: Fly.io is betting on computers for AI agents
Author Name Kurt Mackey @mrkurt @mrkurt Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook. This is a post about our company, the future, and Sprites, which are computers for agents that you can check out right now. So I need you to promise me something: if you read past this introduction, you’ll read the whole rest of the way through.
- ▪Author Name Kurt Mackey @mrkurt @mrkurt Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook.
- ▪This is a post about our company, the future, and Sprites, which are computers for agents that you can check out right now.
- ▪So I need you to promise me something: if you read past this introduction, you’ll read the whole rest of the way through.
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Author Name Kurt Mackey @mrkurt @mrkurt Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook. This is a post about our company, the future, and Sprites, which are computers for agents that you can check out right now. This is a complicated post. So I need you to promise me something: if you read past this introduction, you’ll read the whole rest of the way through. It’s an honor thing. A couple months back, Theo Browne ran a video rating the “best place to host a new application in 2026”. Theo tends to say nice things about us. He did this time too.
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