Unix solved this satisfactorily in 1971. We took two days to figure that out.
A tangent about macOS agent users reminded us that the Unix multi-user model has been solving user isolation for over 50 years.
Category: Technology
Unix Already Solved Agent Isolation
Why are we buying hardware for a problem the operating system handles?Operating systems like Unix have had multi-user isolation since the 1970s.
tmux as Agent Habitat
tmux is a terminal multiplexer built for humans managing remote servers. It splits a terminal into panes, keeps sessions alive across disconnections, and…
mcpx: Because MCP Servers Shouldn’t Require a PhD in Protocol Plumbing
The Model Context Protocol has won. Since Anthropic open-sourced it in late 2024, MCP has grown to 97 million monthly SDK downloads, over 10,000 active…
reWritable: Software that knows how to change itself
When I built clive , the core insight was deceptively simple: don't give the agent a list of tools. Give it an environment.An API is a call-response…
Clive Can Now Modify Itself
We've been building clive — a CLI Live Environment that gives an LLM a terminal and a keyboard. The core idea is simple: instead of wrapping tools in APIs…
The Terminal as Agent Interface: Introducing clive
There is a quiet assumption embedded in most agent infrastructure: that agents need structured interfaces.
Your Agent Framework Is a Monolith. The Browser Doesn’t Care.
Last week, I dropped an LLM agent into a plain HTML file. No Node.js. No Webpack. No Docker container running a Python backend that proxies to another…
The Web Has No API for Agents – Agentic Microformats
In February 2026, we pointed a browser-embedded AI agent at a demo e-commerce store and asked it to buy a laptop stand.
The AI That Pauses to Think: How Interleaved Reasoning Is Reshaping Autonomous Agents
When Moonshot AI demonstrated its Kimi K2 model tackling a PhD-level mathematics problem in hyperbolic geometry, according to examples published in their…