Retrofit or reimagine? Developer environments for humans and agents | Ona’s Matt Boyle

About this episode

The episode discusses the evolution of cloud development environments to accommodate AI agents, featuring insights from Matt Boyle of Ona.

AI agents have officially arrived on an internet that simply wasn't built for them. So how do we build the infrastructure to keep them safe, productive, and contained? This week, Andrew sits down with Matt Boyle, Head of Product, Design and Engineering at Ona (formerly Gitpod), to discuss evolving cloud development environments into secure, enterprise-grade "agent jails." They explore the mechanics of Project Veto’s kernel-level security, the slow death of the traditional IDE, and how the ris...

People in this episode

Host: Andrew

Guest: Matt Boyle

Topics covered

• AI agents
• cloud development environments
• security
• enterprise-grade
• developer tools

Keywords

• AI agents
• cloud development
• security
• Project Veto
• developer environments
• IDE
• agent jails

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ona, Gitpod

Products: Project Veto, IDE

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