They probably are, or at least will! But for now it seems like the first version that works end to end and it certainly feels like it’s a standard VM spinning up a Docker image. There are lots of more specialized solutions out there like CodeSandbox SDK which lets you prepare a devcontainer that can fork and spin up for a new PR in less than a second. So if it’s not Codex, _someone_ will nail this experience. Cursor’s new background agents could be it though I don’t enjoy them currently. And I also get the feeling they too spin up cloud VMs “the old school way”.
They probably are, or at least will! But for now it seems like the first version that works end to end and it certainly feels like it’s a standard VM spinning up a Docker image. There are lots of more specialized solutions out there like CodeSandbox SDK which lets you prepare a devcontainer that can fork and spin up for a new PR in less than a second. So if it’s not Codex, _someone_ will nail this experience. Cursor’s new background agents could be it though I don’t enjoy them currently. And I also get the feeling they too spin up cloud VMs “the old school way”.