exe.dev blog exe.dev docs blog pricing uses SandboxDisposable VMs for AI agents, by the second. VPSPersistent Linux VMs with HTTPS and SSH. DevboxCloud dev environment for you and your agents. Dashboard No Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy (Reality) 2026-08-14 Philip Zeyliger and Josh Bleecher Snyder People who use coding agents are either planner or iterators (or somewhere on that spectrum). The two sides are closer than you think. OAuth for Agents 2026-08-11 Maisem Ali Agents shouldn't hold long-lived secrets. Give them an identity instead—and short-lived access when they need it. The End of No Code 2026-08-06 Philip Zeyliger Writing custom software used to be expensive. Coding agents changed the math. A Non-Exhaustive Inventory of exe's Software Factory 2026-08-06 Philip Zeyliger A quick tour of the internal tools and agents that keep exe running. Simpler GitHub Integration URLs, Plus Read-Only Access 2026-08-05 Maisem Ali and Philip Zeyliger Reach any authorized repo at one URL. And mark an integration read-only when your agent should look but not touch. Introducing Auto-Purchasing for Shelley Tokens 2026-08-05 Bryan Mikaelian Now you don't need to manually purchase more credits when you exhaust your token stores. Botiquette 2026-08-05 Josh Bleecher Snyder We have a lot of bots doing work at exe. Here's how they should behave. Ghostty in the Machine: The Saga of exe-scroll 2026-08-04 Philip Zeyliger Two ghostty instances stand between you and your shell. How exe-scroll keeps remote terminal sessions alive, plus a tour of the prior art: mosh, tmux, dtach, and web terminals. Devtools must be open source 2026-08-02 David Crawshaw The age of personalized software is here. Stripe Just Wants a Number 2026-07-29 Bryan Mikaelian Inside exe’s billable facts architecture. tailmix: Connect to Multiple Tailnets at Once 2026-07-24 Maisem Ali An independent, open-source client that lets one machine connect to multiple tailnets simultaneously. Customizing Shelley, Customizing Software 2026-07-22 Philip Zeyliger With a coding agent living next to your software, customizing it is as easy as asking. Shelley even rebases your changes onto each upgrade. How Antithesis Turned exe into a Sandbox for Agentic Software Tests 2026-07-22 Zoë Schiffer "There's this tension between giving [agents] enough power and then also not letting them destroy the world." Run a Slack Bot from Your VM (Without Giving It the Keys) 2026-07-22 Danny Krause Send-only or fully bidirectional, with the permissions you choose. Claude Is Not a Compiler 2026-07-21 Josh Bleecher Snyder Or: the difference between vibe-coding and vibe-engineering. Meet the Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data Into a Video Game 2026-07-14 Zoë Schiffer Raffael Hickisch spent years dreaming up conservation tools he couldn't afford to build. Then he built them himself, with an AI agent and a country's worth of public data. Building Software From My Phone 2026-07-06 Josh Bleecher Snyder Voice transcription, a share sheet, and a VM that's already running. Connect Your ChatGPT Subscription to exe.dev 2026-07-03 Philip Zeyliger Use Shelley (and pi, and Codex) on exe.dev with the OpenAI models you already pay for. Adding Features Without Interrupting Network Connections 2026-07-01 Ian Lance Taylor How exe.dev ships updates without breaking connections. Building the exe.dev iOS App 2026-06-23 Philip Zeyliger the software workshop behind the iOS app Announcing the exe.dev iOS App 2026-06-15 Philip Zeyliger The exe.dev iOS app is in the App Store. Here's why we built it. Sharing Is Caring 2026-06-10 Philip Zeyliger At exe.dev, sharing a web app you built is as easy as forwarding an email. Replace Your CI With a Merge Queue 2026-06-07 David Crawshaw Agent development means after-the-fact CI no longer works. Dev, Test, Prod: Choose One, Two, or Three 2026-05-04 Philip Zeyliger You can build, test, and deploy on exe.dev. Series A for exe.dev 2026-04-22 David Crawshaw exe.dev has raised a Series A to build a development-focused cloud Some Secret Management Belongs in Your HTTP Proxy 2026-04-18 David Crawshaw and Philip Zeyliger do third-party integrations via HTTP header management Closer Compute 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 🇦🇺 2026-04-11 David Crawshaw exe.dev now runs machines around the world, so your machine is close to you. A Transparent UI Pattern 2026-04-02 Philip Zeyliger 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 2026-03-31 Josh Bleecher Snyder Agents have good judgment now. Delegation beats micromanagement. Everyone Is Building a Software Factory 2026-03-27 Philip Zeyliger Is exe.dev the compute primitive you've been waiting for? February Update 2026-03-09 David Crawshaw Roundup of exe.dev work in February. APIs for the RESTless 2026-03-05 Josh Bleecher Snyder and Philip Zeyliger Mint your own bearer tokens for exe.dev's HTTP API. Why exe.dev VMs Are Persistent 2026-03-03 Philip Zeyliger On the design decision to make VMs persistent, with persistent disks. Show, Don’t Tell 2026-02-22 David Crawshaw On the perils of marketing, and writing private apps from your phone. Review the Reviews 2026-02-15 Josh Bleecher Snyder The code reviewer reviewer reviews the code reviewer's reviews. Software as Wiki, Mutable Software 2026-02-13 Philip Zeyliger When your coding agent lives next to your software, editing it is as easy as editing a wiki. January Update 2026-02-08 David Crawshaw Roundup of exe.dev work in January. Expensively Quadratic: the LLM Agent Cost Curve 2026-02-03 Philip Zeyliger Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations. Your Codebase Is the Prompt 2026-01-27 Josh Bleecher Snyder When Claude writes code you don't like, ask what it saw, not what it did. SSH Has No Host Header 2026-01-22 David Crawshaw A dive into how we share IPs between VMs while making SSH work. Talk Emoji to Me 2026-01-15 Josh Bleecher Snyder Emoji reactions are a surprisingly effective way to communicate with bots. Goodbye Sketch, Hello Shelley! 2026-01-08 Philip Zeyliger Introducing Shelley, exe.dev's mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-modal coding agent. Meet exe.dev, Modern VMs 2025-12-15 David Crawshaw Persistent, private, fast-starting VMs with automatic auth.