It's fast. It's fun. It's software prototyping, pet projects, and agent sandboxes rolled into one giant bouncy endorphin rollercoaster.
For personal reasons, I'm late to the persistent-agents-and-coding-from-phones party. My home server died, and I couldn't summon the motivation to scavenge for parts. I've worked from laptops ever since: no persistence, no remote Claude Code sessions, no blinking lights.
Anyway: exe.dev is the easiest way I've found to dip your toes into coding agents from your phone.
exe.dev gives you persistent Linux VMs accessible over HTTPS. Its default exeuntu image includes Claude, Codex, Pi, and Shelley. Shelley works in the browser and on mobile, which is the important bit when you want to poke at a project from your phone instead of performing laptop-opening ceremonies.
Spin up a VM, hand an agent a task, close the browser, and come back later. Build a CRUD app and deploy it without turning deployment into a second project—or a spiritual trial involving IAM policies and seventeen billing dashboards.
Throwaway apps are easy to make now. The remaining friction is often deployment and whether each silly little project needs its own silly little monthly server bill.
exe.dev makes that anxiety less central. The $20-per-month personal tier currently includes up to 50 VMs, 100GB of pooled disk, and 200GB of transfer. That's a fleet of tiny experiments inside one shared allowance instead of every half-baked CRUD app becoming a fresh infrastructure commitment. A terrarium for software impulses.
It's also a great place to experiment with coding harnesses and models. Let them rip in dangerous, accept-everything mode without giving them your laptop and hoping they understand which folders contain irreplaceable family history.
Still: much less chance of rm -rf-ing family photos, legal documents, or whatever else lives on the machine you promised yourself was backed up.
Go try exe.dev. Make something unnecessary. Give a coding agent a little persistent Linux enclosure and see what it builds.
If that sounds fun, try exe.dev through my referral link and throw them some money.