Sprites

“now all employees can spin up dev envs and actually prototype, verify or reproduce something before coming to engineering”

“why sprites appealed to me is that they are stateful (the disk survives sleep and wake up)”

“Sprites are so close to being great for arbitrary secrets proxying. Right now you have to provision everything manually”

“ChatGPT but with a full sandboxed Linux environment that can host stuff is a pretty compelling offering”

“Complaints were the same, extremely buggy interface, dataloss, but also terrible support.”

“I have never used a buggier infrastructure product in 30 years of development than when I tried sprites.”

“They're also useful for anyone who's building their own product that needs an inexpensive way to execute unsafe code.”

“you get a public/private domain to run a server too, I’ve found it pretty good”

“Sprites arguably has the better security boundary, since the agent isn't sitting adjacent to my laptop and home network.”

“I've been using Claude and https://sprites.dev/ to build bespoke learning exercises”

“I have a partial fix for Sprite's kernel which allows userspace to boot up and work”

“I had the same problem when recently trying to understand the details of spec-kit or sprites from their docs”

“most workflows I'm considering solutions like this for are crippled by their inability to run Xcode or a native Windows build”

“they're great to prevent Claude from breaking a machine, but there's no pervasive sandbox for third party services”

“Filesystem checkpoint and restore make it easy to recover from even catastrophic mistakes.”

“Sprites pricing is based on usage, not reserved capacity, so depending on what you're doing I think it can actually be cheaper than Shellbox.”

“my sprites weren't pausing and i was worried about spending too much so i deleted them”

“It just needs the idling feature to work as advertised before I think I can use it as cost-effectively as it promises.”

“There needs to be a way to see how much it is being used then and not simply the life of the Sprite.”

“My sprites never idled inspite of having nothing running in them and had to be destroyed.”

“there'll be snags this week with it, but we don't make our money by billing people for stuff they don't want”

“Can't tell for sure if this means I'm losing credits as there is no billing usage shown anywhere.”

“this makes it very easy (and cheap!) to spin up an entire new machine with a public url and HTTPS whenever you want to”

“realizing this is a seemingly a consumer product and I haven't been saved from an awful slog”

“I really like the product created by fly.io's https://sprites.dev/ for AI's sandboxes effectively.”

“when you snapshot, you snapshot memory AND the filesystem (immutable ftw), that's pretty awesome”

“durable state and checkpoints solve real pain points that stateless containers force you to work around”

“Nice. I'm trying it for our CI/CD, with GitHub actions just launching sprites.”

“Slightly concerning that a local env var is being transferred to a remote machine without my explicit permission”

“This looks like a really interesting solution, I can just store the data on a sprite with SQLite”

“I like what they've done, played with it and immediately started to plan how I'd try to implement it myself.”

“my experience in the first 20 seconds is unfortunately like some of my other experiences coding against Fly APIs, they're broken”

“Always having a sane place to run anything I happen to be doing, without making any decisions, it's a weird feeling.”

“I've been having so much fun working on sprites (and working with sprites) the last the several months.”

“You can do this now without an MCP, by auth'ing the sprite command inside of a Sprite”

“We just think this is the right "shape" for modern sandboxes, wherever you actually run them.”

“If you want to try something new out real quick, it makes no sense to figure out which of your existing Sprites to use. Just make a new one.”

“it is very neat but also there are a bunch of things that are unclear / undocumented”

“a fast way to create and restore checkpoints, like a git repo for your entire VM”

“I'm really excited about https://sprites.dev/ - it hits two of my favourite problems at once”