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309 - Background Agents

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Andrej Karpathy says the goal is to maximize how long an agent runs without your intervention. But there's a false summit most teams hit first: individual speed goes up while system speed stalls, your laptop roars under four parallel Gradle builds, and review queues back up. Kaushik and Iury trace the full arc — from local multitasking to cloud-hosted async work to fully autonomous agents that fire on repo events and put PRs in your inbox.

Show Notes

Remote Background Agents in the cloud

  • Google Jules - hosted GitHub-connected agent,
    proposes a plan, edits code, runs tests, opens a PR
  • Cursor Cloud Agents - remote agents
    that clone your repo in the cloud and work in parallel
  • OpenAI Codex - cloud software
    engineering agent for parallel tasks
  • Claude Code on the web - cloud-hosted Claude Code
    sessions decoupled from your local machine

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