Devin invites builders to tackle macOS sandboxes
Cognition co-founder Matt Schrage argues that scalable macOS sandboxes for cloud agents are an obvious but fiendishly difficult infrastructure opportunity. He points developers to Devin, Cognition’s autonomous AI software engineer, as a platform for building the idea.
This is a product prompt, not a sandbox launch—and that distinction matters: Devin is being positioned as the builder of agent infrastructure while the macOS execution layer remains open territory.
- –Devin already provides cloud agents with shell, browser, editor, and sandboxed compute environments.
- –macOS-native sandboxes would unlock serious Xcode, iOS, desktop-app, and Apple-specific automation workflows.
- –The hard problems are hardware capacity, VM isolation, entitlements, GUI access, secrets, snapshots, and reliable teardown at scale.
- –A focused wedge—ephemeral macOS environments for Xcode builds and testing—looks more practical than a general-purpose cloud Mac.
- –The post signals where agent infrastructure is heading: operating-system fidelity will become as important as model quality.
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2026-09-15
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