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You're right to raise this. VexFS is part of a broader idea: building infrastructure not for humans — but for agents. Traditional filesystems, databases, and
by lspecian 1y ago
You're right to raise this.
VexFS is part of a broader idea:
building infrastructure not for humans — but for agents.
Traditional filesystems, databases, and tools are all designed with human developers in mind:
- POSIX APIs
- Bash shells
- REST endpoints
Metadata we interpret visually
But intelligent agents don’t think like us. They need:
- Low-latency, associative memory
- Contextual retrieval, not paths and filenames
- Snapshotting of cognitive state, not just byte blocks
Direct memory-mapped embeddings, not serialized APIs
So why give them human abstractions?
VexFS is an experiment in flipping that.
It’s not optimized for you — it’s optimized for the agents you’re about to spawn.
Maybe we need:
- Filesystems that index vectors, not filenames
- Kernel modules that serve memory, not storage
- Logs that store intent, not just stdout
It's not about making AI fit Unix.
It’s about asking:
"What would Unix look like if it evolved under the pressure of AI, not sysadmins?"
That’s what I’m trying to find out.
Would love feedback on what other parts of the stack should be rethought for agents first. VFS? IPC? Memory management?