Remote Access for AI Agents and Idle Workstations
Remote access for AI agents is quickly moving from thought experiment to shipping product. Benjy Boxer, co-founder and CEO of Phaze, joins Alan Shimel on Techstrong TV. Furthermore, he explains why the dumb terminal era is back and why compute, not bandwidth, is the constraint again.
About Benjy Boxer
Benjy previously co-founded Parsec, a game streaming and remote desktop platform that sold in 2021. In addition, he spent time as an investor at Andreessen Horowitz working on early computer use AI models. Consequently, Phaze was founded in 2025 with a partner he has worked with for more than a decade.
Why remote access for AI agents matters
Benjy explains that expensive workstations sit idle when engineers also carry laptops. Meanwhile, one enterprise customer has 30,000 workstations at desks that could be 10,000 racked machines in a data center. Therefore, remote access for AI agents and human users lifts utilization and cuts hardware spend.
A 15,000 dollar GPU workstation cannot sit idle at a desk. Furthermore, newer accelerators need 220 volt power that most desks do not have. As a result, remote access for AI agents and engineers pushes compute into properly powered server rooms.
Dumb terminals return in the agent era
Benjy compares this shift to the wise terminal and mainframe era of enterprise computing. In addition, he notes that Astra style computer use models arrived faster than he expected. Consequently, remote access for AI agents needs the same primitives that remote workers already use.
Phaze works with on prem, cloud and racked GPU workstations without preference. Meanwhile, out of band management turns each workstation into managed infrastructure. Therefore, teams can treat local hardware like cloud instances without giving up ownership.
Go to market and what is next
Phaze released its first version last week with direct sales to early enterprise customers. Furthermore, a free download is live at phaze.app for individual users to try.
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