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We built our own cloud agents runtime. Here's what we learned

PostHog· by Cleo Lant ·2026-10-08

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Building your own agent runtime instead of relying on existing platforms is a bet that your specific constraints matter more than the costs of maintaining infrastructure, and for most SEO shops that's the wrong trade. You're solving for laptop-scale problems that disappear at modest throughput—fan noise, manual orchestration, resource contention—but you're now owning the reliability layer that should be someone else's problem. Unless you're running sophisticated, long-running agent workflows at volume where commercial runtimes actually fail you, you've swapped an operational headache for a different one. The practical question: are you optimizing for control, or did you just not want to pay the vendor?

From the source: You've killed an agent mid-run by closing your laptop. Or watched three of them fight over your CPU while the fans took off (same). A cloud agent…

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