Hot take: persistent VMs with agents is doing it wrong, ephemeral sandboxes are the present
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-10-11
zeeg argues ephemeral sandboxes, not persistent VMs, are the present and future for AI agents. Crawshaw agrees for code changes (fork ephemeral VMs from a persistent base VM) but notes persistent VMs work well for small software built and run in prod on one VM.
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