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October 16, 2026 began like any other day at Fly.io (meaning, we were anticipating only a medium amount of chaos). By...
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In Databricks’ State of AI Agents 2026 report, there’s a chart from Neon’s telemetry that’s somehow both mind-blowing...
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I have unkind things to say about people who make their own pasta. Here, I’ll only use them as an example of how not ...
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Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practical...
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We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite wa...
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Building agents is fun. Rebuilding agents that break themselves… less so. A lot of Fly people are building agents wit...
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Paperclip is extremely hot right now. I’m not going to explain what it is in any detail here because you have YouTube...
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There’s a wave of absurdly efficient local inference engines showing up. Models quantized so aggressively that they r...
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Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practical...
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“Context engineering” is the internet’s new shibboleth. Fine. We’ve had worse. So here’s an argument starter: The onl...
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There’s a lot of noise right now about agent teams and swarms. The idea is simple: instead of one code agent grinding...
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Remember when coding with AI meant copying code from a chat window, pasting it into your editor, running it, copying ...
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I just realised I build everything in Sprites now. It feels weird to say because Sprites are still really new (even f...
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AI generates code faster than you can review it. Your agent wants to run a Python script. Your tool wants to execute ...
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I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s...
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What’s better than one Sprite? Sprites making other Sprites. Claude (running in a Sprite) already knows how to use th...
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Slack bots are handy, but they typically require OAuth, which means you need a server with a public URL to handle cal...
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Running OpenClaw on a Sprite There’s zero chance this will be the first time you’re hearing about OpenClaw, the proje...
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A few days ago, this post hit HN’s front page and generated over 400 comments. The author is talking about the setup ...
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We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to take your containers ...