LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents

Been there (16 years ago), done that (15 year ago), patented it (13 years ago) :) almost the same name too.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenix-atc-10/apiary-easy-...

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa11/tech/full_papers/...

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8589947B2/

Here’s an alternative that runs on your browser: https://nicobrenner.github.io/lossy-git/demo.html

PS: it’s just a fun play on memory/storage and AI. Hope you enjoy :)

Dumb javascript is preventing me from seeing the footer, by scrolling back up to some content it thinks I shiould see.

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How is it v1 with an architecture page coming soon? I'm really having a hard time gauging the maturity of software & services these days.

This website behaves very strangely... scroll hijack. Also everything is suuuuuper stretched out.

Kudos. We did/built something internally to solve similar-ish problems https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/283/versioned-filesystem-fo...

The evergreen observation; The most self-promote-y among us are mostly using AI to reinvent solutions and disguise them as new designs. These address solved problems, which are themselves disguised as new agentic problems.

Celebrating and promoting this stuff does not help us get better at discovering and building actually new things; change my mind.

UnionFS and overlay2, and the concept of layer filesystems existing makes this naming unfortunate and confusing.

Nice website, but that's about it

How is this any different than something like btrfs?

ho yes please hack my browser scroll so I can't read your site (MacOS Safari)

~245k lines of Rust the LLMs coded. So my question is other than DSH does the author(s) have any advice on setup that made creating this possible? or other have tips for best setup that can produce a project like this.

Even those bashing for being AI generated have to admit it’s technically impressive and reflective of where software engineering is headed.

I have to try it but I am very well interested in the decentralized agents mentioned there, I am tired of scattered agents and sessions across multiple OSes and harnesses I have, I just need one say an LXC that I can self host and automatically sync (or rather async like push/pull) all my harnesses, regardless wherever the previous session was.

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