Giving Agents Computers — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
We chat with Daytona's CEO about their insane 74% MoM Growth, 850K Daily Runs, Bare Metal Sandboxes, RL Evals, and the New Agent Cloud
This post originally appeared in Latent Space.
“We realized agents do not want disposable code execution boxes. They want composable computers.”
On the product side, everyone is getting Computer - Perplexity, Manus, Cursor, and so on. Meanwhile on the research side, agentic evals like TerminalBench and GDPVal are also assuming computer (Harbor). On both ends, the consolidating LLM OS stack has become a standard toolkit, and Daytona is one of a small set of AI Infra companies that are booming because of it.
“The end of localhost” has been Ivan Burazin’s obsession for more than a decade.
Something that is all too familiar…
Long before agents became the default way people talked about software development, Ivan was already chasing the idea that development should not depend on a fragile local machine. CodeAnywhere, one of the first browser-based IDEs, was an early attempt at that future: move the development environment into the cloud, make setup reproducible, and free developers from the endless “works on my machine” tax.
The thesis was directionally right, but the market wasn’t ready yet.
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