Claude completed my MPI assignment. Then it couldn't run it. So I built the missing piece.

Ali Aan Khowaja — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:13:00 +0000

Claude wrote the whole thing. Parallel computing, proper MPI calls, the works. But when it needed to actually spin up VMs and execute, it just... stopped. It had no way to buy compute.
That felt wrong to me.
Agents can reason, plan, write code. But the moment they need infrastructure, a human has to step in and swipe a card. Every single time.
So I built Sockt
It's compute infrastructure where the agent pays directly, either through a Bitcoin Lightning wallet or pre-loaded fiat credits. You set it up once. After that the agent handles it.
No human in the loop per request. No card expiry breaking your pipeline at 3am. No KYC re-verification every time it needs a new sandbox.
The Lightning path is the interesting one. An agent that earns sats from doing work can immediately spend them on compute. The loop closes without you touching anything.
The credits path is simpler. Buy a balance, hand the agent an API key, done.
Both are live now.
If you're building with LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, or anything that spins up agents that need to actually run things, I'd love for you to try it.
Docs | hello@sockt.dev

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Claude completed my MPI assignment. Then it couldn't run it. So I built the missing piece.