An Agent Is Just LLM + Shell + Filesystem + Markdown + Cron

For decades, the AI world struggled to define "agent." Researchers had theories. Engineers had architectures. Startups had demos. But the definition remained slippery — until it suddenly became obvious in the most humbling way possible: the answer was sitting in plain sight the whole time. Monolithic Dreams To understand why the new answer is so elegant, you have to understand what came before. In…