Howdy,
I wanted to give a shout-out to our developer community and let you know we’re rolling out a wave of new content around MCP and AI. Love it or hate it, vibe code is the future of the developer space.
Since moving to San Diego, I’ve been hitting local tech meetups — talking with younger devs, and people re-entering the scene from the military — and everyone’s hooked on AI. As someone who’s been writing code for a long time, I get it. It’s like Stack Overflow on steroids… or at least it started that way.
Some of you know that I (and the rest of the core team) have been into computers, Linux, and tech since we were kids. I’ve seen a lot of shifts over the years, but I honestly didn’t think we’d see this kind of processing power in our lifetimes. And yet here it is — arriving as just another API rollout. (I should have known better.)
The ecosystem is evolving fast. MCP in particular has surprised me with just how powerful it can be once you dial in the manifests. And while the tech changes, our core promise doesn’t:
- Human support will always be here.
- Commitment to emerging web technologies stays at the center of what we do.
I don’t think everything’s going to change overnight — I talk more about that in some of the new videos — but I do think Vibe Deploy is the direction the managed hosting space is headed over the next few months.
For the past twenty years, every new tech wave has tried to pull developers further from the fundamentals — automating deployments with ever-tighter controls and scripts. That’s brought its own problems: complexity, ownership, security. LLMs won’t hit the same pitfalls as human DevOps, but their optimizations won’t be the same either.
I think we’re going to see rootless and even container-less approaches making a comeback — because it’s less context to manage. For you and the LLM. And now, context is king. Before, it was a human thing: responsibility, “just ship dev.” But now we’re coding live. Prod is dev.
It’s a weird, exciting time. Let’s make the most of it.
We of course are adding Alma Linux 9 support, and with it Podman which will expand the available libraries by a lot, and thus will enable us to provide more installers. This is available in beta testing now, if you are interested please send us a support ticket asking for more info.
Check out the first drops:
— John
