Replace your CI with a merge queue
Agent development means after-the-fact CI no longer works.
Dev, Test, Prod: Choose One, Two, or Three
You can build, test, and deploy on exe.dev.
Series A for exe.dev
exe.dev has raised a Series A to build a development-focused cloud
Some secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy
do third-party integrations via HTTP header management
Closer compute 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 🇦🇺
exe.dev now runs machines around the world, so your machine is close to you.
A Transparent UI Pattern
exe.dev's UI shows you the command it's running, so you always know how to script it.
Prompt engineering is dead, but Claude still tries
Agents have good judgment now. Delegation beats micromanagement.
Everyone is building a software factory
Is exe.dev the compute primitive you've been waiting for?
February update
Roundup of exe.dev work in February.
APIs for the RESTless
Mint your own bearer tokens for exe.dev's HTTP API.
Why exe.dev VMs are persistent
On the design decision to make VMs persistent, with persistent disks.
Show, don’t tell
On the perils of marketing, and writing private apps from your phone.
Review the reviews
The code reviewer reviewer reviews the code reviewer's reviews.
Software as Wiki, Mutable Software
When your coding agent lives next to your software, editing it is as easy as editing a wiki.
January update
Roundup of exe.dev work in January.
Expensively Quadratic: the LLM Agent Cost Curve
Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.
Your codebase is the prompt
When Claude writes code you don't like, ask what it saw, not what it did.
SSH has no Host header
A dive into how we share IPs between VMs while making SSH work.
Talk emoji to me
Emoji reactions are a surprisingly effective way to communicate with bots.
Goodbye Sketch, Hello Shelley!
Introducing Shelley, exe.dev's mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-modal coding agent.
Meet exe.dev, modern VMs
Persistent, private, fast-starting VMs with automatic auth.