> - you can fork a VM while it's still running
this is big 🫡 🎉
when you run agents for long inside sandboxes, it sucks if it stops or crashes and you lose your work!
so we fixed that
I believe boat.dev now has the most robust filesystem snapshot system out there:
- snapshots include all files, installs, rights, users, browser sessions & in-VM docker state
- they happen constantly, no need to request, literally can't forget to do them
- you can fork a VM while it's still running
- you can bake a VM image this way that you can reuse later for all your tasks or sub-users
- free latest snapshots per VM: the snapshot sizes are super small, therefore cost is low. + you don't have to pay to keep them up
- 2x backup in 2 EU countries for extra safety
- diff-based, incremental, never saturates you or us, always space & resources efficient, minimum failure risk
- even works seamlessly with DBs (even if in a Docker container) that you're running inside the VMs
- lazily restored behind FUSE for fast resumes/fork, files are instantly usable but might initially load slowly, then disk becomes local nvme speed again
- still not the fastest thing ever possible but we're improving every week
opus and I made an explainer video, using blender + ffmpeg + headless chrome, all rendering scenes in parallel across a fleet of boat VMs:
Another way to go is to sync with trylle.com we got simple pricing 2x times cheaper than GitHub 2x faster runners as well.
Game in the vid trylle.com/demianblogan/Tess…
(it's Windows only, but under 15 minutes an agent makes it runnable on Linux too - try asking)
Trylle mentioned 🫡
Part of the Boat charm is that you can bootstrap a full product without fear of waking up to $30k bill.
We even use 8 vcpu shape for #MagicSessions (our cloud agents feature).
Credit is due:
Pokemon cards (poke-holo.simey.me/) by Simon Goellner
trylle.com/simeydotme/pokemo…
Trylle retweeted
Hot take: In 12 months, firing up a local IDE just to fix bugs and write integration tests will feel like manually editing server files over FTP.
If your AI tool requires you to keep a laptop open and watch tokens stream, it is already legacy
Software engineering is quietly turning into a phone-first job.
🤝 Paid partnership
we just shipped Magic Sessions in Trylle
a new way to run longer coding tasks directly from your repos
try it on trylle.com
- start from an issue
- kick off a task
- test the change
- open the PR
here’s me taking a real issue all the way to a pull request
We’re launching coding agents at trylle.com
we just shipped Magic Sessions in Trylle
a new way to run longer coding tasks directly from your repos
try it on trylle.com
- start from an issue
- kick off a task
- test the change
- open the PR
here’s me taking a real issue all the way to a pull request
To launch our newest Magic Sessions we've integrated with 3 best sandbox providers, each having unique strengths.
Sandbox by @vercel , Boat by @asciidotdev, and Devbox by @namespacelabs. This makes us available worldwide across 20+ regions and scale rapidly.

















