The Operating System Advantage
We’ve got two hot takes on why the OS is essential for great agents:
CLI expressiveness beats bespoke “LLM tools.” CLI tools are composable (|, &&, xargs), self-documenting (--help), and match
how engineers actually work. One-off JSON tools tend to be isolated and require tool
designers to predict every use case up front.
Open-loop orchestration beats rigid workflows. Real engineering has surprises:
flaky tests, missing context, failing builds, CI-only failures, new constraints. The “OS loop”
lets the agent decide the next step based on what it observes, instead of forcing every task into
a fixed graph.