You wouldn’t let a junior intern deploy to production on their first day. So why are you giving your AI agents root access?
We are witnessing a shift. The era of “AI as a Chatbot” is ending. The era of “AI as an Employee” (Agentic AI) is beginning. And frankly, our infrastructure isn’t ready for it.
The “Hidden Kernel” Problem
When you use ChatGPT, the worst thing it can do is lie to you. It’s just text. When you use an Agent (like Devin, Jules, or AutoGPT), it has tools. It has a terminal. It has access to the filesystem.
Most teams are running these agents in one of two places:
- Localhost: “It works on my machine” (until the agent deletes your
.envfile). - Shared Staging: A chaotic sandbox where 50 agents are stepping on each other’s toes.
This is the Infrastructure Gap. We have spent 10 years building CI/CD pipelines for human code. We have nothing for probabilistic code.
Agents Need a Playground, Not a Pipeline
Human code is deterministic. You write it, you review it, you merge it. AI code is experimental. It needs to try things. It needs to run a command, see the error, and try again.
If you force an agent to run in a traditional CI pipeline, it fails. CI is designed to “fail fast”. Agents need to “fail forward”. They need an environment where they can make mistakes safely.
Enter Ephemeral Infrastructure
This is where the AI Platform Engineer comes in. Your job is no longer just managing Kubernetes clusters. Your job is managing Agent Runtimes.
You need to provide your developers with:
- Isolation: Every agent run gets its own micro-VM. No shared state. No “neighbor noise”.
- Safety: The VM is sandboxed. It has no access to your corporate network unless you explicitly allow it.
- Ephemerality: When the agent is done, the VM vanishes. Any mess it made is gone.
PrevHQ: The Runtime for Your Agents
We built PrevHQ for humans to preview code. But we realized that Agents are our power users.
Agents don’t need a UI. They need an API to spin up a safe environment, run their tasks, and prove they worked. PrevHQ provides that “Golden Path”.
- Don’t run agents on localhost. It’s dangerous.
- Don’t run agents in prod. It’s suicide.
- Run them in PrevHQ.
Give your agents a sandbox. Let them break things there, so they don’t break things here.