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ENGINEERING

We care deeply about reliable systems and the craft of operating engineering at scale. This blog is where Cortex engineers share what we're building, how we built it, and what we learned along the way.

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Sandboxing AI agents: Building a microVM

Your AI agent is about to run rm -rf and curl | sh. Let's build a microVM for it to run in, directly in your browser.

authorNikhil Unni
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read_time 9 min

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The software factory is an operating model, not a coding agent

Every company already has a software factory. The question is not whether they will build one, but how much of it they will automate.

authorNikhil Unni
published
read_time10 min
engramssoftware-factoriescoding-agentssdlc

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