our cloud agent usage at decagon is up 6x over the past 3 months. cloud agents are quickly becoming the default way our team works because: - they scale beyond a single laptop: each agent gets its own isolated sandbox (no worktrees) so there’s no local resource contention - you can spawn swarms from anywhere (web, slack, linear): designers and PMs are shipping - they can run for hours, spin up all services, and put up PRs with screenshots/videos but if verification isn't trustworthy, you just multiply slop. the bottleneck isn’t model intelligence, it’s the environment setup and verification. to verify effectively, you need to: - give it the same tools an engineer has locally (same stack, MCPs, context) - create a framework (like @poteto's pstack) that encodes how the agent should create/test its changes and ship artifacts you can review without reconstructing the session the horizon of work you can give agents is much longer - cloud agents can pretty much ship while you sleep. probably the highest leverage thing an eng team can invest in right now.