You are treating your AI agents like human employees. That is why your infrastructure is melting.
The Human-Scale Fallacy
When a new engineer joins your team, you provision a laptop. You give them AWS credentials. You grant them access to a staging environment. This works because you hire humans linearly. One at a time.
But last week, your “Growth Engineering” team deployed an agentic workflow. This wasn’t one new hire. It was effectively 500 junior developers joining your company at 2:00 PM on a Tuesday.
They all wanted a dev environment. They all wanted to run migrations. They all wanted to preview their changes.
Your staging environment didn’t just slow down. It died.
The 1,000 Agent Problem
This is the new reality of Platform Engineering. We are shifting from a world of “Human-Speed” development to “Agent-Speed” development.
Humans are slow and thoughtful (mostly). Agents are fast and reckless. Humans need persistent context. Agents are stateless. Humans work 9-to-5. Agents work 24/7/365.
Yet, we are still forcing agents to use human tooling. We make them wait for a shared staging server. We make them contend for a single database instance. We try to review their work by looking at screenshots.
It’s like trying to run a high-frequency trading algorithm using a telephone switchboard.
The Pivot: Agents Are Compute Jobs
We need to stop treating agents like “Digital Workers” and start treating them like “Compute Jobs.”
A compute job doesn’t need a laptop. It needs a container. A compute job doesn’t need “Staging.” It needs an ephemeral sandbox. A compute job doesn’t need a “Performance Review.” It needs a deterministic pass/fail signal.
If you are building an AI Platform, your job isn’t to build better prompts. It’s to build a Runtime for Agents.
Enter The Sandbox
This is why we built PrevHQ.
We realized that for agents to be useful, they need to be safe. And to be safe, they need to be isolated.
PrevHQ provides an ephemeral, sandboxed execution environment for every single task your agent attempts.
- Agent wants to try a database migration? Spin up a micro-VM.
- Agent wants to change the CSS? Spin up a preview URL.
- Agent fails? Destroy the VM.
- Agent succeeds? Merge the code.
No shared state. No “cleaning up” the staging DB. No risk of an agent wiping production.
Build the Roads First
The “Agentic Future” isn’t about the smartest model. It’s about the strongest infrastructure.
If you invite 1,000 agents into your house, make sure you have enough rooms for them. Otherwise, they’re going to break the furniture.