Sandboxes will shift from cloud devboxes to one ephemeral environment per command, with snapshots in between

ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-09-29

A widely shared take argues today's long-running persistent sandboxes are mostly lift-and-shift "devboxes in the cloud." The prediction: sandboxes will evolve toward far more ephemeral designs — one environment per command, with snapshotting in between so sessions can be paused, resumed, or cloned. A notable architectural direction for agent infrastructure.

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