Perspective8 min read
The filesystem is the interface of the future.
Apps come and go. The folder has outlasted all of them, and it turns out to be the one interface that people and AI agents both already know how to use.
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The Baseseat blog
Notes from
the folder.
Essays, explainers and the odd joke about how teams and their agents work together.
Opinion7 min read
Who even uses dashboards?
A dashboard is a room you visit to look at a number, and most of those rooms are empty. A fair and slightly unfair look at the tab you forgot you had open.
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Field notes7 min read
plan-final-v2-ACTUAL.md: a short history of file names.
Every team folder has a plan.md, a plan (1).md and a plan-final-v2.md. Each one was right on somebody's laptop. Here is how they got there, and why agents make it worse.
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Field notes7 min read
Your agents already work as a team. They just do not share a desk.
Multi-agent setups have mostly served one person on one laptop. Then a second person arrives with a different agent in a different city, and the question becomes where the work lives.
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Explainer7 min read
Zero bytes on disk: how a 31 GB file fits on your laptop.
A file that Finder says is 31 GB and also zero bytes on disk is not a glitch. Here is how a folder can show everything and fetch only what a program actually reads.
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Explainer7 min read
A thousand sandboxes walk into a folder.
Short-lived agents need real access to real files, but not your API key and not the keys to everything. How sandbox tokens give each job one drive or one folder, for exactly as long as it needs.
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Looking at your options?
Read the comparison ↗Baseseat vs. Google Drive and Dropbox.
Why they are so cheap, and what a folder built for agents does differently.