
Run your agents on the hardware you already wrote off
Agents run on old, fully managed machines. Per machine the electricity costs about as much as a coffee a month. Comparable AWS capacity costs $240 to $475.
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Agents run on old, fully managed machines. Per machine the electricity costs about as much as a coffee a month. Comparable AWS capacity costs $240 to $475.

Everyone's talking about AI agents. I keep coming back to a different question — in a remote-first world, what actually separates a human colleague from an AI one?

A reflection on how AI agents transformed software development in 2025, my goals for building AMOS in 2026, and why powerful tools still require human discipline.