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Engineering · Oct 1, 2026 · 6 min read

The web wasn't built for agents. Neither is your app.

We removed the agent loop from camelCode and deleted about 72,000 lines of code. Here's why we built camelRun, an open-source hosted runtime for stateful, long-lived agents.

MSMiguel Salinas
Should you build on Cloudflare? What we learned from D1 and Durable Objects

Sep 30, 2026 · 11 min read

Should you build on Cloudflare? What we learned from D1 and Durable Objects

We moved our coding agent into Cloudflare Durable Objects in July and off them in September. Here's what we learned from D1 overload errors, Durable Object restarts and memory limits, and where we'd still build on Cloudflare.

IRIlliana Reed
Our coding agent runs in a Cloudflare Durable Object, not a VM

Jul 28, 2026 · 8 min read

Our coding agent runs in a Cloudflare Durable Object, not a VM

We moved camelAI’s coding agent off always-on VMs and into Cloudflare Durable Objects, with SQLite and R2 for files and JavaScript Code Mode instead of bash. Here’s the three-step redesign that made it possible.

MSMiguel Salinas
How we self-host DeepSeek V4 Flash on AWS spot instances

Jul 22, 2026 · 10 min read

How we self-host DeepSeek V4 Flash on AWS spot instances

We recently launched a free tier powered by a self-hosted DeepSeek V4 Flash. Here's how we picked the model and hardware together, adapted an open source vLLM recipe, and made the KV cache — not raw compute — the thing that let the economics work.

MSMiguel Salinas
I tried Cursor, Lovable, and camelAI before finding a vibe coding tool I could actually use

May 13, 2026 · 7 min read

I tried Cursor, Lovable, and camelAI before finding a vibe coding tool I could actually use

I’m the non-technical COO at camelAI. A few months ago, Illiana told me I needed to learn how to vibe code. Here’s the honest story of my journey through Cursor, Lovable, and camelAI - including the time I accidentally deleted our production app.

IRIsabella Reed
camelAI Is Going Open Source — Here’s Why

May 6, 2026 · 6 min read

camelAI Is Going Open Source — Here’s Why

I’m one of the co-founders of camelAI, and we just announced we’re open-sourcing the platform. Here’s the full story: why we built it cloud-first, how it compares to Claude Cowork and OpenWork, and what open source actually means for teams that want to vibe-code and share what they build.

IRIsabella Reed
We tried Modal, Cloudflare Containers, and Sprites before building our own persistent container service

Mar 21, 2026 · 7 min read

We tried Modal, Cloudflare Containers, and Sprites before building our own persistent container service

Every user on camelAI gets a persistent computer. We tried Modal, Cloudflare Containers, and Sprites — none fit. So we built our own container service in a week, and it was simpler than expected.

IRIlliana Reed
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