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exe.dev (Bold Software, Inc., Berkeley, CA) provides sandbox VMs, persistent VPSes and the Shelley coding agent as infrastructure for developers and AI coding agents; it was co-founded by Tailscale co-founder David Crawshaw and card.io co-founder Josh Bleecher Snyder.
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