Charles: agents resemble processes and containers, but the new core is permissions
charles_irl · x · 2026-09-10
Charles argues agents substantively resemble the OS abstractions of process/task/container/thread. The difference: agent behavior is far less controllable — intelligence given general tools and broad access can surprise you — so this incarnation of the abstraction will revolve around permissions.
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