Fifteen years of cloud infrastructure abstracted away the machine. Functions, not file systems. Stateless, ephemeral, and billed by the invocation. That model was right for web requests. It was never designed for agents.
https://www.sideband.pub/p/agents-need-computers-not-compute
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