The idea of coding agents working in the background while we sleep, eat, or focus on other things is compelling. As someone who does not have a goodish laptop, I am often limited by how much I can do at the same time and how long I can push LLMs and agents for. I was having instances where everything was super laggy if I had 2 or more CLI agents working on something parallel. It was brutal, and it took away so much of my productivity. Chrome tabs lagging, the CLI stuttering to load the diff.
That's why I had gravitated a bit towards finding cloud based solutions. There were Codex , Claude Code and Cursor on the web. But the main issue with these for me, all of them were just one model provider, which I often don't like as I like different models for different type of dev works.
Then I stumbled on Tembo.
I had been following Benja for some while and had known he was working on Tembo. I signed up and gave it a shot. You get $50 worth of credit as soon as you join, so it was plenty for me to try this concept of cloud agents out. It was pleasantly surprising. I just prompt it as I generally do via a website and it does everything in the cloud and opens a PR in your repo. And if you have proper CI/CD setup (my goat Vercel) you automatically get a preview link of that PR. And everything happens in the background.
My recent PRs using Tembo
One instance which blew my mind was, I once asked Tembo to do a complete redesign of my writing web app flowwrite, a zen like writing app where you cant delete anything. I just gave it a basic prompt and I let it go as I was in the metro returning home. It had it completely done by the time I was home.
My flowwrite task in Tembo
It did a pretty awesome job. You can try it out here.
After this ordeal, I kept thinking what else I could do. Now, Tembo acts as my CMS as well, where I will just tell to add my blog post(like this) or some photos for my /photos page and it does it. It also has regular scheduled automations where it scours my linked sources via MCP and regularly updates my different projects based on a set of predefined tasks.
Right now, I am experimenting with how much I can push cloud agents. I am creating a minesweeper game completely by cloud agents. You can try it here. I plan to only do this when I cant code and plan to over engineer it with multi player setups and AI bots. Excited to see how much I can push LLMs.
Minesweeper completely made by background agents
I do see the future of how many of these cloud agents are gonna surround us doing things in multiple domains for us and for that I am very excited. Of course there are some limitations, mainly it going onto a hallucination hell because its not constantly connected to the same stream that was doing the work earlier, but its already an awesome start.
If you want to try Tembo out you can check them out here. They just had a really huge release with MCP supports, Multi agent support, and task template which I am playing around with a lot. The team is really great and is so responsive + insanely fast with responding to feedbacks and feature request. The future looks promising and is gonna unlock a lot of things for us.
Thank you so much for reading!