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14 Aug 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Lindy Teammate: Flo Crivello on Multiplayer Agents, Memory & Why He'd Ban the Chinese Models He Uses
“Now I'm like, anytime I have an opportunity to buy instead of build, I will do it because, like, you save so much time and there is so much more depth and thinking and design decisions that goes into these products, then you may appreciate it.”
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- 14 Aug 2026
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…Wow. Boo. Right? And so we there's been a lot of work. And so one way you do that is via is via, like, a a collection of agents. And so, yes, these collections of agents tend to step on each of those toes. The answer to that is Git, which, by the way, also gives you history for free, which is which is awesome. By the way, like and this is not a sponsored message. Like, they've just been doing a really good job. We've been working with Mesa, m e s a. They sell, like, an agent native file system that that's backed by Git. So you create all of those repositories. Initially, we started by the way, it's it's one of those intuitions you have to build as you build these systems. Like, it's very easy. It's very tempting to be like, I'll just head roll it. I'll just create my own Git. I'll just, like, manage my own file system infrastructure. And you you you learned that there is so much more depth behind those systems than you first appreciate. And so I now I am so it's actually funny because it it sort of goes counter to the the prevailing narrative these days, which is like, SaaS is dying. You can vibe code everything. And while I'm typing a lot of stuff, but infrastructure will not vibe coding. And I've I've become so infra build. Now I'm like, anytime I have an opportunity to buy instead of build, I will do it because, like, you save so much time and there is so much more depth and thinking and design decisions that goes into these products, then you may appreciate it. I love a good vendor shout out. Any other vendor shout outs? Any other key primitives that you're buying that you would recommend?…
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