exe.dev

all you need is a computer

[Alex Wendland @AlexRWendland]

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.

[exe.dev @ssh_exe_dev]

🫶 https://t.co/37Fgbtt6fg

[David Crawshaw @davidcrawshaw]

in case you missed it, you can resize exe VMs

[exe.dev @ssh_exe_dev]

@Dan_The_Goodman Looks like it got assigned to a certain ceo *cough* who may be behind on his inbox. Will get you a response tonight!

[Matt McClure @matt_mcclure]

The @Tailscale + @ssh_exe_dev combo is so good. Really wish I'd figured out it comes preinstalled sooner.

[Stanislav Kozlovski @kozlovski]

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

[sisyphus bar and grill @itunpredictable]

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 😂)

[Stanislav Kozlovski @kozlovski]

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

[exe.dev @ssh_exe_dev]

@psankar @davidcrawshaw Would love to, but it will be a while. We have a lot of compute to build out.

[exe.dev @ssh_exe_dev]

@confusedqubit @michielmv @raindrop_ai Shelley runs inside our VMs.

[exe.dev @ssh_exe_dev]

Come try the beginnings of a new cloud, built for devs in the age of agents: https://t.co/OL6TX7Kh0N

[David Crawshaw @davidcrawshaw]

Because Clouds are in my feed today, just a reminder that we are building a cloud: https://t.co/DVSLzCfrEa We have decided on what to release next and I am very happy with it. Watch this space.

[Yaron (Ron) Minsky @yminsky]

People are saying...

(Also, check out https://t.co/P7PsUQFaKy. it's such a pleasant experience.)

[exe.dev @ssh_exe_dev]

The (not ready yet! still buggy!) iOS app is ✨

[David Crawshaw @davidcrawshaw]

all sorts of things happening in the discord

[David Crawshaw @davidcrawshaw]

@copyconstruct Yes this is a major change in our programming style, most of the tests for https://t.co/EZoI6mCDiS 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.

[Stanislav Kozlovski @kozlovski]

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

[David Adrian @dadrian]

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. https://t.co/2xHsN6j3Rk

[Mux @MuxHQ]

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): https://t.co/M8e4W2VTsY

[marimo @marimo_io]

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.

[sisyphus bar and grill @itunpredictable]

@ssh_exe_dev is the smoothest cloud experience I've ever had. give it a try

[Amplify Partners @AmplifyPartners]

Congrats @ssh_exe_dev on their launch today and excited to lead their $25M Series A!