OAuth for Agents
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
Writing custom software used to be expensive. Coding agents changed the math.
A Non-Exhaustive Inventory of exe's Software Factory
A quick tour of the internal tools and agents that keep exe running.
Simpler GitHub Integration URLs, Plus Read-Only Access
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
Now you don't need to manually purchase more credits when you exhaust your token stores.
Botiquette
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
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
The age of personalized software is here.
Stripe Just Wants a Number
Inside exe’s billable facts architecture.
tailmix: Connect to Multiple Tailnets at Once
An independent, open-source client that lets one machine connect to multiple tailnets simultaneously.
Customizing Shelley, Customizing Software
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
"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)
Send-only or fully bidirectional, with the permissions you choose.
Claude Is Not a Compiler
Or: the difference between vibe-coding and vibe-engineering.
Meet the Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data Into a Video Game
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
Voice transcription, a share sheet, and a VM that's already running.
Connect Your ChatGPT Subscription to exe.dev
Use Shelley (and pi, and Codex) on exe.dev with the OpenAI models you already pay for.
Adding Features Without Interrupting Network Connections
How exe.dev ships updates without breaking connections.
Building the exe.dev iOS App
the software workshop behind the iOS app
Announcing the exe.dev iOS App
The exe.dev iOS app is in the App Store. Here's why we built it.
Sharing Is Caring
At exe.dev, sharing a web app you built is as easy as forwarding an email.
Replace Your CI With a Merge Queue
Agent development means after-the-fact CI no longer works.
Dev, Test, Prod: Choose One, Two, or Three
You can build, test, and deploy on exe.dev.
Series A for exe.dev
exe.dev has raised a Series A to build a development-focused cloud
Some Secret Management Belongs in Your HTTP Proxy
do third-party integrations via HTTP header management
Closer Compute 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇩🇪 🇦🇺
exe.dev now runs machines around the world, so your machine is close to you.
A Transparent UI Pattern
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
Agents have good judgment now. Delegation beats micromanagement.
Everyone Is Building a Software Factory
Is exe.dev the compute primitive you've been waiting for?
February Update
Roundup of exe.dev work in February.
APIs for the RESTless
Mint your own bearer tokens for exe.dev's HTTP API.
Why exe.dev VMs Are Persistent
On the design decision to make VMs persistent, with persistent disks.
Show, Don’t Tell
On the perils of marketing, and writing private apps from your phone.
Review the Reviews
The code reviewer reviewer reviews the code reviewer's reviews.
Software as Wiki, Mutable Software
When your coding agent lives next to your software, editing it is as easy as editing a wiki.
January Update
Roundup of exe.dev work in January.
Expensively Quadratic: the LLM Agent Cost Curve
Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.
Your Codebase Is the Prompt
When Claude writes code you don't like, ask what it saw, not what it did.
SSH Has No Host Header
A dive into how we share IPs between VMs while making SSH work.
Talk Emoji to Me
Emoji reactions are a surprisingly effective way to communicate with bots.
Goodbye Sketch, Hello Shelley!
Introducing Shelley, exe.dev's mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-modal coding agent.
Meet exe.dev, Modern VMs
Persistent, private, fast-starting VMs with automatic auth.
