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Hello Product Hunt,

2 years ago, I worked at the European Space Agency, scaling their black holes & binary stars research efforts.

At that time, GPT 4o already helped us find many optimizations that made the code more scalable. But to test them, our agents needed a cluster of cloud compute, which we had to wait 2 months to get. AI may work fast but compute provisioning is slowing it down.

After leaving, I spent 10 months building cloud coding agents, which needed cloud computers too, so I tried many self-serve options for "computers for agents" and "AI sandboxes".

But there was no fit, they were optimized for bursty, short-lived scenarios on containers rather than full computers where anything just works...

... all while being super expensive, high multiples of what the same compute is worth in the average datacenter in Europe.

So 2 months ago, we built and launched box on X, our on-demand computers for agents, super cost-efficient and powerful.

Now our computers for agents have already run for 10 years in just 2 months, growing steadily every week.

Today, they already power many agentic platforms, software factories, cybersecurity audits platforms, with real customers in production.

Try box and let us know how it goes :) https://box.ascii.dev