Local vs cloud sandboxes for coding agents: one dev compares VMs, Ramp Inspect and test subsetting

reitiux · reddit · 2026-11-11

A dev running heavy agent loops locally is weighing cloud sandbox options: self-managed cloud VMs (worried about snapshot maintenance), Ramp Inspect (runs background agent loops in cloud sandboxes and triggers fixes via GitHub), or just running smaller test subsets locally.

They're asking whether switching to cloud sandboxes is worth it before a hardware upgrade.

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