It's a hardware-isolated Linux shell with a durable disk you can conjure out of the sky on 1.5 seconds notice that costs virtually nothing when you're not actively using it. If we could have shipped this in 2021, before anyone thought coding agents would work, we'd have barfed on our shoes with excitement.

I guess I can see how pre-installing some LLM agents makes it potentially seem "AI-centric", but I don't understand at all how this could be "US-centric".

the US is the centre of the world, and AI is at the centre of US attention!

why would anyone do anything else, anywhere else?