Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey is stepping down
Author Name Kurt Mackey @mrkurt @mrkurt Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook. This is a post about our company, the future, and Sprites, which are computers for agents that you can check out right now. So I need you to promise me something: if you read past this introduction, you’ll read the whole rest of the way through.
- ▪Author Name Kurt Mackey @mrkurt @mrkurt Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook.
- ▪This is a post about our company, the future, and Sprites, which are computers for agents that you can check out right now.
- ▪So I need you to promise me something: if you read past this introduction, you’ll read the whole rest of the way through.
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| Original publisher | Fly |
| Canonical URL | https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:43:11 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-24T15:59:13.654Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-24T15:59:13.654Z |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Author Name Kurt Mackey @mrkurt @mrkurt Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook. This is a post about our company, the future, and Sprites, which are computers for agents that you can check out right now. This is a complicated post. So I need you to promise me something: if you read past this introduction, you’ll read the whole rest of the way through. It’s an honor thing. A couple months back, Theo Browne ran a video rating the “best place to host a new application in 2026”. Theo tends to say nice things about us. He did this time too.
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