Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey is stepping down
Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey is stepping down, with Scott Johnston taking over as the new CEO. The company is pivoting its focus toward 'Sprites,' a new infrastructure product designed for AI agents.
Why it matters
Leadership changes at cloud infrastructure companies often signal shifts in product strategy and market positioning within the competitive developer tools space.
Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook. This is a post about our company, the future, and Sprites, which are computers for agents that you can check out right now.
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