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Background Coding Agents in 2026: What Devin, Codex Cloud and Jules Actually Cost

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A terminal coding agent only works as long as you're watching it, which caps how much you can hand off at however many hours you're willing to babysit a session. Background agents remove that ceiling: you hand over a scoped ticket, it runs on a cloud VM with your repo already cloned, and you come b…

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  1. 2026-08-28 18:37 · DEV Community — AI
    Background Coding Agents in 2026: What Devin, Codex Cloud and Jules Actually Cost

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