Why Agents are Driving Software Development to the Cloud

Why Agents are Driving Software Development to the Cloud

From Agentic Conversations (formally mlops.community) by Demetrios

April 17, 2026 · 51 min

About this episode

Zach Lloyd discusses the shift of AI coding agents to cloud environments and the implications for software development.

This episode is brought to you by Hyperbolic and the MLflow team. Check out more information at hyperbolic.ai and MLflow.org . Why AI Coding Agents Are Moving to the Cloud — With Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp Zach Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Warp, the AI-native terminal and agentic development platform trusted by over a million developers. Before Warp, Zach was a product lead at Google on Google Docs — giving him a uniquely deep intuition for what it means to build truly collaborative developer tools at scale. Why Agents are Driving Software Development to the Cloud // MLOps Podcast #371 with Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp What we cover: 🏗️ Why agents belong in the cloud, not local sandboxes — Zach breaks down why the "set up a local dev box for your agent" approach is fundamentally flawed and what cloud-native agent execution actually looks like in practice. 🚀 GitHub is losing collaborative code review — One of the episode's sharpest takes: the hero features of GitHub, like collaborative code review, are migrating into agent workbenches. Zach explains why this shift is structural, not cyclical. 📱 "Just-in-time apps" are replacing SaaS — The era of long-lived…

People in this episode

Guest: Zach Lloyd

Topics covered

  • AI Coding Agents
  • Cloud Computing
  • Software Development

Keywords

  • collaborative tools
  • GitHub
  • agent workbenches
  • just-in-time apps

Sponsors

Hyperbolic

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Warp, Oz, MLflow

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