Agentic engineering in reverse

One of the many projects I had started over the last few months was a daemonized shell. I wanted to understand how terminals work more in depth, and how tmux does what it does. In order to do that, I started building a very simple PTY daemon. My idea was something like: I want to be able to daemonize a shell, and then have some sort of listening process that controls it and can send bytes to it.…