Dorian Zheng (@DorianZheng)

Building BoxLite With 13 People: What Coding Agents Taught Us

TL;DR Coding agents are part of everyday work at BoxLite. Our most useful lessons concern review reflection, visible evidence, and decisions that still need human understanding. Thirteen people, a mic

11d ago · 16 min readblog.boxlite.ai

Building a VMM from scratch, #0.5: Booting Linux in 190 lines of C

In #0 we set out to replace libkrun with a VMM of our own. Its boot path is landing one PR at a time, and its tests already boot a real Linux kernel to an init on four vCPUs (#2052). Before the parts

Oct 22 · 11 min readblog.boxlite.ai

We raised funding from Lollapalooza Capital and Impa Ventures to rebuild tools and infrastructure for people and agents

Today, we're announcing a multi-million-dollar funding round for Polygala, Inc., the company behind BoxLite. The round is backed by Lollapalooza Capital and Impa Ventures. Thank you to everyone who ha

Oct 17 · 5 min readblog.boxlite.ai

Our OKRs for Q4 2026

Our ambition: make BoxLite the default home for agents and the applications they build. We want developers to choose BoxLite whenever an agent needs a computer: to build, run, and deploy useful work.

Oct 14 · 6 min readblog.boxlite.ai

Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun

Every BoxLite box runs in its own micro-VM, and today libkrun runs that VM. We're replacing it with a VMM we write ourselves. This series builds it in public, one merged PR at a time. 1. What BoxLite

Oct 11 · 6 min readblog.boxlite.ai

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Building BoxLite With 13 People: What Coding Agents Taught Us

Building a VMM from scratch, #0.5: Booting Linux in 190 lines of C

We raised funding from Lollapalooza Capital and Impa Ventures to rebuild tools and infrastructure for people and agents

Our OKRs for Q4 2026

Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun

Dorian Zheng

About

Available for

Dorian Zheng's blogs

Building BoxLite With 13 People: What Coding Agents Taught Us

Building a VMM from scratch, #0.5: Booting Linux in 190 lines of C

We raised funding from Lollapalooza Capital and Impa Ventures to rebuild tools and infrastructure for people and agents

Our OKRs for Q4 2026

Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun

Dorian Zheng

About

Available for

Dorian Zheng's blogs

Building BoxLite With 13 People: What Coding Agents Taught Us

Building a VMM from scratch, #0.5: Booting Linux in 190 lines of C

We raised funding from Lollapalooza Capital and Impa Ventures to rebuild tools and infrastructure for people and agents

Our OKRs for Q4 2026

Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun

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Dorian Zheng

About

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Dorian Zheng's blogs

Building BoxLite With 13 People: What Coding Agents Taught Us

Building a VMM from scratch, #0.5: Booting Linux in 190 lines of C

We raised funding from Lollapalooza Capital and Impa Ventures to rebuild tools and infrastructure for people and agents

Our OKRs for Q4 2026

Building a VMM from scratch, #0: Why BoxLite is replacing libkrun