Would I think of this as an EC2 instance which automatically and quickly scales to zero, with pricing only for resources consumed? (CPU and RAM when up, and disk all the time?)
It's a fast starting and fast pausing persistent VM, with a ton of built in developer tools (including a preconfigured Claude Code) and an extra JSON API for executing commands within it so you can treat it as a sandbox.
You may find my writeup here useful: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/sprites-dev/
So let's say sprite is my building/dev ground floor. I get my thing/app to where I want it, but at the end of the day I think my thing/app is so awesome that it should be a production app for the whole world, and, I want to actually deploy it on fly, say.
Have you guys thought about that workflow, and what it might take to push button/migrate a sprite app over to fly?
Also, any plans for GPU sprites?
I don't think we're going to do anything new with GPUs any time soon.
Wait, what?
and when I spin up a new LXC container cloud-init sets it up with the agents and my repos inside