Leaving Localhost: Building an Agent-Native Dev Environment

Why is it that Anthropic can port Bun from Zig to Rust in 11 days, while most teams still struggle to make sweeping changes to production software? Bun is complex, but it turns out its verification loop is actually quite clear: there's a well-defined TypeScript spec, and a huge battery of tests the agent can iterate against.

This talk will explore techniques to build agent-native dev environments in the cloud that allow for these kinds of tight verification loops for software that's traditionally much harder to verify: tax accounting, vertical AI agents, robotics control systems, etc. We'll discuss how to manage stateful dependencies (databases, queues, caches), third-party services, and seed data so you can focus on architecture & product while your agents handle implementation & testing in the cloud.