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I wrote some thoughts into the Turso blog today about why I think the Filesystem abstraction will be a key abstraction for LLMs. Read the full thing at: turso.tech/blog/nothing-n… A summary: 50 years ago, Unix popularized a concept that seems so obvious to us today, it is hard to grasp how revolutionary it was: "Everything is a file". Unix was built on files. Every single Unix application was designed to consume files, and then spit files. If we look closely, this is one of the first instances of a common interface (as APIs would become later). If there is a common interface, tools can hyper-specialize. And if tools can hyper-specialize, they can become very good at what they do. The many decades of Unix dominance left us with a very wide array of incredibly capable tools that speak the language of files. And late last year, it became clear that "agents" were really just a dumb French guy called "Claude" with access to a Unix shell, commandeering all those tools. The models are trained on those tools. And even for the new tools, it is hard to resist the urge of just following the pattern, and making it file-based at least to some extent. My prediction for 2026 is that filesystems will be back with all the rage. We at @tursodatabase developed AgentFS for this exact same purpose. Another tool I will highlight is Just-bash, by @cramforce at @vercel : it builds upon the fact that most modern agents are written in Typescript, and gives them access to a subset of the most powerful bash tools an agent would want. We live in wild times, and I am here for it!

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