# Our Best Customers Are Now Robots

DevFeed: [Our Best Customers Are Now Robots](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/our-best-customers-are-now-robots-1697.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://fly.io/blog/fuckin-robots/>)

Published: 2025-04-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [The Fly Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-fly-blog.md>)

Topics: [fly.io](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fly-io.md>), [Vibe coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vibe-coding.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Docker](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/docker.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

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## AI overview

Fly.io argues that AI-driven "robots" and vibe coding are becoming major sources of platform growth, potentially making traditional developer experience less decisive. The article describes Fly.io's cloud as a service that turns Docker containers into hardware-isolated virtual machines and emphasizes its CLI-first workflow for containerizing and deploying applications.

## Source excerpt

We're Fly.io, a developer-focused public cloud. We turn Docker containers into hardware-isolated virtual machines running on our own metal around the world. We spent years coming up with a developer experience we were proud of. But now the robots are taking over, and they don't care. It's weird to say this out loud! For years, one of our calling cards was "developer experience". We made a decision, early on, to be a CLI-first company, and put a lot effort into making that CLI seamless. For a good chunk of our users, it really is the case that you can just flyctl launch from a git checkout and have an app containerized and deployed on the Internet. We haven't always nailed these details, but we've really sweated them. But a funny thing has happened over the last 6 months or so. If you look at the numbers, DX might not matter that much. That's because the users driving the most growth on the platform aren't people at all. They're... robots. What The Fuck Is Happening? Here's how we understand what we're seeing. You start by asking, "what do the robots want?" Yesterday's robots had diverse interests. Alcohol. The occasional fiddle contest. A purpose greater than passing butter. The elimination of all life on Earth and the harvesting of its cellular iron for the construction of 800 trillion paperclips. No one cloud platform could serve them all. [*] We didn't make up this term. Don't blame us. Today's robots are different. No longer masses of wire, plates, and transistors, modern robots are comprised of thousands of stacked matrices knit together with some simple equations. All these robots want are vectors. Vectors, and a place to burp out more vectors. When those vectors can be interpreted as source code, we call this process "vibe coding"[*]. We seem to be coated in some kind of vibe coder attractant. I want to talk about what that might be. If you want smart people to read a long post, just about the worst thing you can do is to sound self-promotional. But a lot of th