Marc Andreessen
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first heard Oct 2024
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So it's a Unix shell.
And then the agent has access to the shell, hopefully in a sandbox, maybe in a sandbox.
So it's the model, it's the shell, and then it's a file system.
And then the state is stored in files.
And then there's the markdown format for the files themselves.
And then there's basically what in Unix is called a cron job.
There's a loop and then there's a heartbeat.
And the thing basically wakes up.
So it's basically LLM plus shell plus file system plus markdown plus cron.
And it turns
out that's an agent and and every part of that other than the model is something that we already completely know and understand and in fact it turns out the like the latent power of the unix shell is like extraordinary because basically like all like there's just like there's just enormous latent power in the shell there's enormous numbers of unix commands there's enormous number of command line interfaces into all kinds of things already in the you know your entire i mean your entire just to start with your computer runs on a shell if you're running a mac or a phone your computer your computer is running on a shell already and so like the full power of your computer is available at the command line level
And then it turns out it's really easy to expose other functions as a command line interface.
And so this whole idea where we need MCP and these fancy protocols, whatever, it's like, no, we don't.
We just need a command line thing.
So that's the architecture.
And then it turns out, what is your agent?
Your agent is a bunch of files stored in a file system.
And then there's the thing that just completely blew my mind when I wrapped my head around it as a result of this, which is like, OK, this means your agent is now actually independent of the model that it's running on because you can actually swap out a different LLM underneath your agent.
And your agent will change personality somewhat because the model is different, but all of the state stored in the files will be retained.
Different instruction sets.
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