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VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system

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If it can't run on the metal, is it really an OS that's "native"? Surely an "AI-native" OS runs the AI in ring zero? Is a dockerfile the same as an OS? Always?

These are serious questions, about what is surely not a serious project.

I remember back in 2016 when we thought satire would always remain satire. Boy. Boy how far we've not come.

Optimistic of you to assume that future operating systems will run on local compute. Windows 35 requires datacenter level resources, but cortana will sell you minecraft capes with real-time emotionally personalized unskippable advertisements!

That's the whole point of an operating system - to manage local hardware. That's its reason for existing. The moment task switching starts depending on rtt to a cloud provider's servers, it's just a thin client with delusions of grandeur. Fifty milliseconds per system call, and no amount of tflops on the backend is going to save you from that feeling of working through a proxy in 2005

You could construct a computer that natively executes neural network weights. It's technically possible.

You can watch the presentation of VibeOS on https://youtu.be/z3pV6FHvcgM?si=UlL6TMSa3htRB567, unfortunately with an abrupt ending.

One comment to that demo was: "You cant just end it like this! WHAT DO YOU HAVE BEHIND THE GODDAMN SCENE?!"

Reply was a URL with the exact timestamp to the BEHIND THE SCENES: https://www.youtube.com/live/HG0twQJ7aG4?t=16050. The comment following this reply "was expecting this to be typical reply section clickbait but it's actually legit! Thank you!"

Another comment 'Developer: "Hey check out this funny useless software I made." Big Tech and Investors: genuinely considering'

This website seems broken in multiple ways. Is the author trying to make a point?

SlopOS

I think it's parody? That said all products made with heavy AI use are so inherently bad, and the buffoons so credulous behind their prompts, that it's difficult to suss out genuine efforts by unqualified people vs. people who know it's bad and are doing it to be funny/make that point.

It's kinda like trying to identify actual crypto projects headed by people who have no idea how anything outside cryptographic programming works, versus ones headed by people who know exactly how stupid it is and are just looking to cash a check.

Also the people who hype AI and the ones who backed crypto are basically the same exact circle of bag holders. They'll be out of AI as soon as the bubble pops. I think robotics is gonna be the next one.

I don't think this was author-submitted. The last github commit was 10 months ago. It's ancient by AI standards.

We are going to see more of these vibe-coded abandoned projects floating around GitHub. Last commit was 10 months ago. [0]

[0] https://github.com/caffeinum/vibeOS/commit/53439912487534870...

To be fair abandoned projects have always been a feature of GitHub and the broader coding community, it’s just now it’s easier to finish the project before abandoning it entirely

This will happen for real. But then a JIT-like process will generate regular code for efficiency, on the fly in the background.

Yeah, this is only a joke because it doesn't work very well at the moment. On-the-fly code generation is the logical conclusion of coding models.

There's no practical point to this. System calls and hardware interactions are deterministic. We don't need a probabilistic model to efficiently handle interrupts or write blocks to disk. Ai is great for the user interface layer, but at the kernel level, hardcoded C or Rust will always be faster and more reliable

The only viable scenario for that kind of ji approach would be a profiler that analyzes load patterns and recompiles kernel modules with optimal compiler flags for a specific use case. Dynamically generating kernel code from scratch would kill the system with compilation and ast verification overhead

This might be the first ever operating system built with Next.js and React server components. Congrats to them, I guess...

The repository has 75 commits and everything stopped 10 months ago.

Can we at least starting putting some minimal effort into changing the Vercel favicon from these Nextjs vibe coded things[1]

[1] https://vibeos.sh/favicon.ico

> But what about privacy?

> "I will not run AI with access to my hardware!"

> Sure! That's why we have a Dockerized version

Is this serious? Have I missed the point of the satire?

Not to be confused with VibeOS: a completely vibecoded operating system

https://github.com/kaansenol5/VibeOS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561151)

OP went with the most vibecoded AI slop name possible, vibeos

This gives me that same feeling as 90s-00s Linux .... Sure, your gonna royal mess it all up at some point and have to reinstall (probably sooner than you think)....but look at all the fun stuff you can potentially do with it.

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