I don't think these sprites are worth betting the company on, but I guess that will be for the new CEO to decide.

> A Sprite is a hardware-isolated execution environment for arbitrary code: a persistent Linux computer. Whether it's an AI agent like Claude Code or a binary your user just uploaded, Sprites are the simplest answer for "where should I run a blob of code".

I think eventually this isolation may be built in to Claude code / codex, or provided by AI companies themselves.

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simonw an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Sprites are about more than just providing an environment for Claude Code et al to run code in. They're also useful for anyone who's building their own product that needs an inexpensive way to execute unsafe code.

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hahahaa an hour ago | parent | next [-]

And the way you compete is be cheap enough and DX. Because Lambda.

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tptacek 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

Why are you so sure "DX" is the right way to compete with commodity full-stack hosting? Have you had Claude deploy on AWS recently? It one-shots deployments just fine.

	▲	hahahaa 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		DX ups its game. You got claude to deploy. Cool. I clicked a button in my PaaS and I have an oncall responder and incident manager ready to go.

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Imustaskforhelp 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> execute unsafe code.

I have a question regarding sprites but when executing unsafe code, because by definition its unsafe, what happens if the code violates terms of service of fly/sprites. Would only that particular sprite be removed or would it escalate to whole account level ban and the risks attached to it or would they take a look at repeated offenders.

from fly's terms of service Section 1.4(d) and section 9.2 respectively

> Customer will not... "sublicense any of Customer's rights under this Agreement, or otherwise use the Fly.io Services for the benefit of a third party."

> "Either party may terminate this Agreement for no reason or any reason upon written notice to the other party, effective immediately at the end of the then current Subscription Term."

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throwaw12 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think sprites are very cool abstraction.

I know git worktrees solve similar problem, but you can use sprites for quickly spinning up your instance and run your service and hand it over to coding agent to improve a feature.

you can run multiple parallel agents to do same and choose one of them as a final result, and you are not constrained by number of ports or your CPU (because some agents are CPU hungry at the moment)

Think about even more use cases, add to that RAM shortage is not going away yet, you can run 100s of agents in those sprites

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hahahaa an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yuk I don't want to rent my appartment from my drug dealer. I love I can say thanks for the code Claude now fuck you I am deploying it (waggles finger in westerly direction...) there.