Unix

“So it turns out what we now know is an agent is the following. It's a language model. And then above that, it's a bash. It's a bash shell. So it's a Unix shell. And then the agent has access to the shell and, you know, hopefully in a sandbox, maybe in a sandbo…”

“Because my premise is MCPs are crap. Doesn't really scale. People build like all kinds of weird search things around it. But you know what scales? CLIs. Agents know Unix.”

“We think of it as like a Unix utility. Right. So it's like the same way that you would compose, you know, grep or cat or oh, cat. Or something like this. The same way you can compose code into workflows.”

“The sort of design DNA spreads easier than code DNA, because code has hard requirements, not all of which are known or tested for but design can be copied.”

“Like Ethereum, I think, as sort of Jesse was saying, is more an example of the bottoms-up modular approach, where there's a kernel of an idea, there's that riverbed along which people people get together. But then there's also a community that's building all s…”

“Red Hat kinda got lucky and find a commoditizing change, which was Unix to Linux. That's an rare event to have a major, you know, chip system re platforming see change.”