All your agents are going async

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TL;DR

Agents outliving HTTP sessions need durable state — community says $5 VPS and tmux already solves this.

Key Takeaways

  • Core problem: agent runs longer than caller’s HTTP connection or changes device mid-task
  • Durable Objects, Google ADK, exe.dev VMs, and tmux all already solve this in production
  • Author discloses Ably affiliation two paragraphs from the end — top comment calls it a pitch deck

Discussion

Top comments:

  • [TacticalCoder]: $5/month server, SSH, tmux — async agent problem already solved without new infrastructure

    $5 per month dedicated server, SSH, tmux.

  • [bozdemir]: Half of this is a pitch deck for Ably; disclosure buried; async transport isn’t the real problem
  • [skybrian]: exe.dev Shelley already does this today across laptop, tablet, and phone seamlessly
  • [pdp]: Multi-agent message injection doesn’t work well — concurrent context insertion breaks coherence

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