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309 - Background Agents
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
sub-agents from a main orchestrator, with tmux pane integration
Remote Background Agents in the cloud
proposes a plan, edits code, runs tests, opens a PR
that clone your repo in the cloud and work in parallel
engineering agent for parallel tasks
sessions decoupled from your local machine
Building trust
shaping agent environments — and why this ceiling exists
Get in touch
We'd love to hear from you. Email is the best way to reach us or you can check our contact page for other ways.
We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like to hear more on.
Co-hosts:
[!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with
Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind
our new direction.
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By Kaushik Gopal, Iury Souza
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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
sub-agents from a main orchestrator, with tmux pane integration
Remote Background Agents in the cloud
proposes a plan, edits code, runs tests, opens a PR
that clone your repo in the cloud and work in parallel
engineering agent for parallel tasks
sessions decoupled from your local machine
Building trust
shaping agent environments — and why this ceiling exists
Get in touch
We'd love to hear from you. Email is the best way to reach us or you can check our contact page for other ways.
We want to hear all the feedback: what's working, what's not, topics you'd like to hear more on.
Co-hosts:
[!fyi] We transitioned from Android development to AI starting with
Ep. #300. Listen to that episode for the full story behind
our new direction.
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