Tweet by ankrgyl
December 15, 2025
Agents simplifying everything to file systems reminds me of Hadoop. Hadoop’s big idea was that analysts can just write scripts that access files directly instead of specialized interfaces like SQL. Substitute people with agents and now you’re in 2025… I think we will relearn the same lessons: modeling every problem as a file system is slow, brittle, and insecure at any interesting scale. The reason this happens every N years, however, is that as computing paradigms change, the abstractions we have built up to support them start to crack. File systems allow you to cut past them and reinvent things from scratch. In the data world, many of the ideas from Hadoop (eg parallel compute at scale) found their way into Snowflake and Databricks, which are much more sophisticated abstractions. I’m quite excited to see the new abstractions that emerge from our collective learnings right now. I’m also bearish that filesystems are the long term solution.
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