Every agent should be a VM

OpenAI's Codex CLI and Anthropic's Claude Code represent significant advancements in coding agents, characterized by improvements in model capabilities and a shift towards human-centric design. Unlike traditional complex Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), these agents utilize simpler two-layer while loops, providing the flexibility for agents to explore and solve ambiguous problems by using the bash command line. This approach reduces the need for predefined specialized functions, allowing agents to handle tasks more dynamically, akin to human software development processes. As these agents create and manage their workflows, the demand for cloud infrastructure that supports rapid environment setup, durable execution, and massive parallelism is expected to grow, benefiting companies like Modal and Cloudflare. For instance, a practical application of this technology involves a Claude Code agent automating daily GitHub tasks, underscoring the potential and efficiency of these modern coding agents.