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lbrito01/15/20261 replyview on HN

>Any time anybody needs a pen, several are at hand, in exactly the first place they look.

>Now, today, under the hood, Sprites are still Fly Machines. But they all run from a standard container.

So its basically a faster VM?

What are some use cases for this that benefit from the faster boot time?


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ignoramous01/16/2026

> some use cases for this that benefit from the faster boot time

Faster create times. Sprites create (including booting up) in a second or two, per TFA.

One usecase for Sprites I see are disposable dev boxes (like for rapid prototyping with Coding Agents).