> Filesystems as a weak abstraction.

Is a concept the author needs to get over.

> The ideal would be "across my entire computer and applications, what are the recent files I have interacted with" and expand that out to include emails and Teams/Slacks and everything. I should be able to see everything going on with my machine, search through it and not care if its stored inside of Slack or iCloud or whatever. Single pane of glass.

Nope. This would be great if it worked.

This idea of getting rid of the file system is very old, tired and has failed. And failed. And failed.

…and you know apps hate? Letting you out of their walled gardens.

> Microsoft tried it, people didn't like it,

Yup.

> but I think the concept makes sense.

Nope.

You’re going to have to do better than trying this again.

Something something local LLM? Mm.

It’s a Hard Problem. The kind of problem that random engineers look at and go “doesn’t seem that hard, I could do that in a weekend”.

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> In the interest of full disclosure I think this is gonna take many weekends of work to even get a functional demo running. So I'll do my best, but be patient.

Okay, to be fair, the author did acknowledge that it’s a lot of work and it’s hard; and I look forward to seeing the result, because experiments in this space are interesting, the idea of a visual tmux maybe has some legs…

…but I think this project is too ambitious to succeed.

Not being the default isn't what stops these concept desktops from taking off; it’s that people don’t like them.

No file system, you just get “tasks” and an LLM to pray to and hope you get your data from?

:/ I don’t think it’ll fly.