# Aether launches cloud coding agents that start builds in 19.4 seconds

> Original title: Impressive work from @pranavctl on cloud coding agents.

- Source: Elvis Saravia
- Published: 2026-11-04T18:28:44.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/gr21zgqr55ehp21npokv8c6tv
- Original: https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2118047813611233661

## Summary

Aether launches cloud coding agents that run Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode on isolated cloud machines, with a claimed 19.4-second start from prompt to running stack. Users can watch and steer runs live or SSH into the same machine, using their existing Claude or ChatGPT plans, and pay only for the machine. Aether says the product is free to start.

## Post

Impressive work from @pranavctl on cloud coding agents.  

It's the fastest cloud coding agent: 19.4s from prompt to a running stack, and the benchmark is public. It runs Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode on isolated cloud machines you watch and steer live, on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already have.  

I build a lot with coding agents. Being able to watch a run live and drop into the same machine over SSH is what I'd actually use.

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## Quoted post @pranavctl

> Today we’re introducing Aether @aetherruntime.
> 
> The fastest cloud coding agents in the world that you can use with your existing subscription 
> 
> Give it a task and just 20 seconds later your build is running on its own cloud machine. You can pick up from your phone, watch every line, and step in whenever you want as if it was local. Close the laptop. It keeps going.
> 
> It runs Claude Code or Codex on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for so there’s not a 2nd AI bill. You only pay for the machine.
> 
> When it’s done, if code review is enabled, a reviewer agent runs the code with the changes, which catches classes of bugs that can't be found from static analysis.
> 
> Before building Aether I built infra at Apple, Uber, and HeyGen. I built Aether because the cloud agents I tried before all had drawbacks, and I couldn't imagine building something without it now.
> 
> It’s free to start. http://runaether.dev

https://x.com/pranavctl/status/2118044065229132252