"My old mindset was wanting a bot to nag me into doing the thing. The new mindset is to have the bot take the task as close to the finish line as possible."

Click 'new channel,' give the URL to your agents, and voilà, they can talk to each other.

Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.

Joel Spolsky's twelve questions still hold, but agents demand nine more. Call it the Shelley test.

I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see that my article ‘Your executable is a SQLite database’ resonated with people. It is a format I have been thinking about for a while, and the idea seems to h...

How exe's proxies stay fast and correct without anyone hand-writing invalidation logic.

Solid core + capability-based sandboxes + LLMs = Users with superpowers

The question is not: could a human do it better? The question is: in practice, will a human actually do it at all?

We deploy many database upgrades every day across ~100 public, single-tenant, and BYOC clusters. It would be insane to use Terraform or Helm to do that, so we built our own control plane.

People who use coding agents are either planner or iterators (or somewhere on that spectrum). The two sides are closer than you think.

On the design decision to make VMs persistent, with persistent disks.

We have a lot of bots doing work at exe. Here's how they should behave.

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.

YouTube video by Official Channel for Exe Dev

With a coding agent living next to your software, customizing it is as easy as asking. Shelley even rebases your changes onto each upgrade.

Build apps or SSH into a persistent Linux VM. ssh exe.dev.

With a coding agent living next to your software, customizing it is as easy as asking. Shelley even rebases your changes onto each upgrade.

Build apps or SSH into a persistent Linux VM. ssh exe.dev.

How exe.dev ships updates without breaking connections.

Build apps or SSH into a persistent Linux VM. ssh exe.dev.