The most underrated thing about running a coding agent in the cloud isn't speed — it's that you can walk away. The work keeps going, and you can look in on it from wherever you are.
The laptop is no longer the bottleneck
When your agent lives on your laptop, checking on it means opening your laptop. With a Podbay pod, the agent runs in the cloud and you reach it from any browser — including the one on your phone. Kick off a long refactor before you leave, glance at the terminal from the bus, and see where it got to.
See what it actually did
You don't want to babysit an agent — you want to review its work. From the pod you can watch the live terminal, see the changes it made, and push a branch when you're happy, all without being at your desk.
It keeps running while you're gone
A Podbay pod runs 24/7; it only stops when you suspend it. So a task that takes an hour doesn't need you sitting there for an hour. Set it going, close the laptop, and check back when it's done.
Your coding agent, in the cloud, that you can actually reach — that's the whole pitch.