25 days ago
- Cloud agents evolved from simple extensions of local agents to independent VMs with their own environments, enabling parallel, unattended, and long-running tasks.
- A full development environment is critical for cloud agent output quality, requiring infrastructure like user tools, VM hibernation, and pipelines for checkpointing and restoring images.
- Cloud agents face reliability challenges due to disruptions like inference outages; using Temporal for durable execution improved reliability and now handles millions of actions daily.
- Decoupling agent loops, machine state, and conversation state allows flexible deployment across different pods, with efficient storage for streaming updates and handling retries.