Guillermo Rauch says Vercel Sandbox must keep agent workspaces persistent

AIGuillermo Rauch argues stateless sandboxes are the wrong benchmark because agents need their identity, skills, repos, and memories with them. He says the Vercel Sandbox team is meeting its latency and throughput targets while expanding to 19 global regions.

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Stateless sandboxes are the wrong benchmark. Agents are only useful if they have their workspace with them (identity, skills, repos, memories…)

Vercel Sandbox team has been beautifully delivering on their latency & throughput SLOs, while prioritizing reliability and security.

Doing this while shipping clusters in 19 (‼️) global regions, new features every week, and under immense amount of customer demand in the double digit growth percentage per week.

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Vercel Sandboxes with Drives start 2.4x faster. • Median creation drops from 1.7s to 0.7s • p95 creation drops from 2.2s to 1.6s • No SDK upgrade or config changes needed https://vercel.com/changelog/vercel-sandbox-with-drives-now-starts-up-to-2-4x-faster

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Guillermo Rauch · x.comPublished Nov 2, 2:28 PM ET · added here 2:46 PM ET

Original title: Stateless sandboxes are the wrong benchmark. Agents are only useful if they have their workspace with them (identity, skills, repos, memo...

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