all you need is a computer exe.dev
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Jun 12
New day, new integration: bring your ChatGPT subscription to exe. Power Shelley and the LLM gateway with it for all your VMs.
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Jun 10
Yesterday we deployed a network namespace scaling project we have been cooking up. This is designed to keep compute nodes behaving predictably under load. As a bonus, it means even multi-GB systemd-based images boot in under a second, on any of our machines.
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Jun 10
Before this, business customers had access to compute nodes that could predictably boot VMs in under half a second. Now everyone gets sub-second starts.
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Jun 10
Under the hood, this is about careful management of the global rtnl_mutex in the host linux kernel. Rapid creation of new namespaces on busy machines requires carefully managing the contention of this lock. (We have some more work in the oven in this space!)
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been playing with @ssh_exe_dev this weekend and was curious how they made `ssh thingy.exe.dev` just work, and it's pretty cool: blog.exe.dev/ssh-host-header
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exe.dev retweeted
May 31
Opus 4.5 and @ssh_exe_dev were the unlocks that let me start coding again. Now I can make meaningful tools with 5 minute chunks of focus from my phone across busy days.
Even with elite engineers to collaborate with, nothing beats the feedback loop of working on it yourself.
May 31
Unclear if a durable trend, but CEOs and CTOs are back to coding with a fury, thanks to coding agents.
I have public company CEOs sliding into my DMs (and “InMail”) telling me about falling in love with shipping software again thanks to Claude Code and Vercel.
“Dream accounts” that we always wanted to work with, where in the past the C-suite would hardly understand the infrastructure until much later in the game.
Coding agents are the ultimate PLG-fication of the enterprise. Bad, legacy software can’t hide anymore. The stack that works is self-evident to the entire organization, from intern to CEO.
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exe.dev retweeted
May 30
in case you missed it, you can resize exe VMs
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exe.dev retweeted
May 28
The @Tailscale @ssh_exe_dev combo is so good. Really wish I'd figured out it comes preinstalled sooner.
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exe.dev retweeted
May 25
What surprised me the most about Exe is how polished it is for a ~6 month old product.
They've truly made it zero friction. If you've ever used Tailscale, you will see parallels in the UX. (no wonder, it's the same guy behind it!)
Ever since this interview, I've been using it more and more to remotely one-shot some feature idea I got on a whim while AFK. (David spoke about this workflow at 20:37)
In this video, we also discuss:
• why VMs are the right abstraction for agents, and why containers don't cut it
• what current clouds lack
• Shelley and its native integration in exe
• why cloud pricing sucks for medium-sized users
• where hyperscalers excel and the difficult problems they have solved (all credit to them)
• why clouds cap machine SKU variety and how that hurts the user choice
• how the game has changed with AI and what a native AI dev workflow looks like
May 23
why agents need VMs, not containers
with David Crawshaw, ex-CTO & co-founder of Tailscale
now co-founder and CEO of exe - a new up-and-coming cloud provider
Timestamps
(0:00) why build a new cloud?
(2:07) why Docker isn't enough for agents
(12:28) why AI-friendly is developer-friendly
(20:32) why VMs are the right abstraction (and the serendipity of just dropping an idea prompt from your phone)
(28:30) the exorbitant price of IOPS in the cloud (32:21) Cloud Discounts
(33:40) the rise of self hosting
(41:25) Shelly and AI ops agents
(48:10) the hard problem with AI SREs
(53:00) parting thoughts and early EC2’s noisy neighbor shenanigans
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exe.dev retweeted
love @ssh_exe_dev it is definitely the easiest way to vibecode little apps in no time. fiancee has been bugging me to make something like this for years (yes I have all these things 😂)
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exe.dev retweeted
May 23
why agents need VMs, not containers
with David Crawshaw, ex-CTO & co-founder of Tailscale
now co-founder and CEO of exe - a new up-and-coming cloud provider
Timestamps
(0:00) why build a new cloud?
(2:07) why Docker isn't enough for agents
(12:28) why AI-friendly is developer-friendly
(20:32) why VMs are the right abstraction (and the serendipity of just dropping an idea prompt from your phone)
(28:30) the exorbitant price of IOPS in the cloud (32:21) Cloud Discounts
(33:40) the rise of self hosting
(41:25) Shelly and AI ops agents
(48:10) the hard problem with AI SREs
(53:00) parting thoughts and early EC2’s noisy neighbor shenanigans
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May 19
Come try the beginnings of a new cloud, built for devs in the age of agents: exe.dev
May 18
Because Clouds are in my feed today, just a reminder that we are building a cloud: crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-… We have decided on what to release next and I am very happy with it. Watch this space.
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exe.dev retweeted
May 15
People are saying...
(Also, check out exe.dev. it's such a pleasant experience.)
May 15
While the industry is pouring resources into programs without GC (rust), I think the Jane Street OCaml folks have it figured out with OxCaml.
Almost all your code paths are cold and GC is net positive. 1% of your code is performance sensitive. Don't create GC pressure there.
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May 15
The (not ready yet! still buggy!) iOS app is ✨
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exe.dev retweeted
May 13
Yes this is a major change in our programming style, most of the tests for exe.dev are end-to-end. It has required a lot of eng effort to keep our merge queue to 100 seconds with hundreds of e2e tests to run.
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fully-fledged Kafka Grafana stack from a single prompt, in under 15m (ft. @ssh_exe_dev)
Self-hosting is seriously up for a comeback.
Folks like @dhh have harped on this since 2022...
LLMs turbocharge this trend 🔥
the end result 👉 14:50
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exe.dev retweeted
May 1
I poked around with @ssh_exe_dev and wrote up some notes on how I think their abstractions are implemented, because it was pretty cool. dadrian.io/blog/posts/exe-gi…
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Join us for Dev Tools and Our AI Overlords, next Wednesday at Mux HQ in SF 🤖
We're digging into what it means to build dev tools now that AI agents are users too. Hosted with our friends at @neondatabase and @ssh_exe_dev.
Talks from:
• @TooTallNate of @vercel — Once Upon a Webhook - Durable AI Agents with Workflow SDK
• @davidcrawshaw of @ssh_exe_dev — The code we can't afford to review anymore
• @andrelandgraf of @neondatabase — How I vibe coded to 100k weekly downloads
• @philipkiely of @baseten — Inference as oxygen
• @joshalphonse of Mux — React Native needs a new video player
Register (yup, there will be food): luma.com/7yhoj31m
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exe.dev retweeted
Apr 20
Your marimo notebooks can now be apps on a dashboard.
Manage environment dependencies, secure apps with tokens, and deploy across cloud or local infrastructure. Demo hosted on @ssh_exe_dev.
Video walkthrough in thread.
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