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Git Wasn't Built for Agents, So Mesa Rebuilt the File System | Agents Hour
August 14, 2026
Git wasn't built for AI agents — so Ben Warren's team rebuilt the file system from scratch. Ben Warren, co-founder and CTO of Mesa (YC S24), joins Shane and Abhi to explain why the file system is the missing primitive for AI agents, and how Mesa — a versioned, POSIX-compatible file system with Git-style branching — lets you run massively parallel agents without the pain of Git.
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Episode Transcript
00:00
Git wasn't built for agents
00:23
Meet Ben Warren & Mesa
01:33
Why file systems are the right primitive
03:52
Why Git doesn't work for agents
05:23
Owning the storage layer & syncing to GitHub
06:01
The backstory
08:24
Demo: the CFO command center
10:30
Demo: Three parallel agents
12:22
The versioning model: forks, merges & clones
14:12
Beyond work trees
16:22
Where to find Mesa
17:10
Outro