Agents need lots of VMs but not lots of CPU/RAM
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-08-25
David Crawshaw reflected on an old tweet, noting that his current work requires many VMs for agents, but not necessarily powerful CPU/RAM per instance. This highlights a new infrastructure demand for AI agents: high concurrency of low-resource instances.
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