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jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
Hey, I just wanted to stop in briefly to say I will respond to you, I want to respond properly but things have just been tight as expected.

I will come later today and get back to you.

I will say I appreciate you though.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
I'm not going to beg on the streets tbh. I'm not willing to stoop down to begging on the streets.

I'm not looking to sell water.

I have to be honest, i don't think you understand how real life works.

Your suggestion is to to sell water to make a few pennies and that will get me £2000 for a place to live and allow me to travel the world attending rust conventions.

I'm looking for help, not silly ideas that you saw in a movie once.

Besides anything it's literally illegal to sell food based products (drinks included) here in the UK without a proper license and it could literally land me in court for tax avoidance and all sorts.

Maybe in the US things are different but here in the UK we can't just sit at the side tof he road selling water - it's 5°C out, people don't by water from beggars in the UK.

Surely this is not a serious comment?

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
What?

This is genuine. This a real life story and the life I'm currently living.

I'm not out here scamming or promoting.. I'm literally asking for a way out of the hell hole I've landed in.

I have zero support from anyone or anywhere and I'm trying to make something of my self and my life.

Have you ever been homeless on the streets?

If you need proof I can happily provide pictures of me in my tent.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
I have to be honest. You're not being helpful at all. In fact you're being quite derogatory towards my condition.

"supposedly some super intelligent autistic person"

That is just an insult. And you said it several times.

Yes I can map out complex systems in my mind when I'm creating them.. that doesn't automatically make me good at everything and at understanding everything.

What are you actually trying to say here? Because to me it seems like to you set out to say I'm somehow pretending to Autistic or faking things based on your findings that I don't have contact information on my profile and that to you the links are some kind of barrier. I mean it's really not difficult to copy and paste the URLs if that's what you want to do.

I really don't appreciate the term "supposedly some super smart autistic" with the assumption that I'm not.

You're very rude and obvs not trying to help.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
Not sure you're reading the post.

The services that are supposed to be available are not helping me.

Anyone who actually understands what OctantOS is and what it's true capabilities are would be insane to not want to be involved in bringing it to market.

Maybe most people are happy to settle with a dead end job being depressed for life just to eat.

No thanks. I'd rather focus on making something of myself - even if that means temporarily suffering until someone sees the opportunity I bring.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
Cheers
jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
I'll be absolutely honest.

Sometimes I can come across as rude or arrogant or a bit "in ya face" so sometimes I do ask Claude etc to review and rewrite my posts and comments.

It's the autism creeping out and I think it's better to use AI to rewrite a comment than come across as a d*k unintentionally.

I assume nobody is particularly bothered by an autistic person using AI to make sure he's not a d*k by accident?

It's still my comment, just with the miscommunication removed.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
I wish it were that simple.

How do I get a job while homeless? What would I do with my dog while I work 8 hours a day?

I struggle with normal jobs. I can't cope working jobs I dont like doing. It makes me depressed on top everything else.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
It's not vibe code.

Please show me a vibe coded OS containing over 20 separate projects all merging together.

A from scratch kernel, from scratch hypervisor, from scratch everything.

Theres a big difference between systema architecture with AI tooling and vibe coding a little app.

This is not a vibe coded application.

I'm a 40 year old man. If I had the option to go get a job I would.

What would I do with my dog while I'm at a job? Do I leave him in the tent while I go off for 8 hours or more each day?

I'm guessing you don't fully grasp the point I'm aiming for here.

I'm hoping someone will see this and understand that I'm better than a dead end job. My brain is very unique and has the ability to do things others can't.

Honestly, if I could just go out and get a job and a place to live in would not be posting things like this.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
Are you sure you read the post.

There are no available services. But even if there were, I don't need psychiatric care. I'm perfectly capable of living normally when I do.tnhve the weight of the world on my shoulders.

As the post makes very clear, I have tried to get assistance for years. The UK is a shambles for helping people ony situation. Because I'm classed as high functioning, I get treated like I'm just wierd.

The government will not help me with Housing or shelter.

The government will not provide care for my mental condition.

I don't need a dead end job or a good job eventually.

I just want to do what I'm very good at.

But it seems most people struggle to comprehend that I just want to be given a chance.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
yeah. that's the public facing repo with docs only.

Making it open-source would like of defeat the object here and render it worthless.

A project like this isn't worth much when it gets cloned 1000 times and people start using all my code for free.

The whole point is to create a proprietary software system that will be able to help me make something of my life.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
10-12 parallel AI coding sessions running simultaneously.

1.3M lines over 4 months at ~18 hours a day works out to roughly 600 lines per hour total, or about 60 lines per hour per session. One line per minute per session.

The methodology is documented on the repo.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
I appreciate the thought, genuinely.

But I have to be honest: I’ve been through Citizens Advice and the benefits system for years. CA is a signposting service that directs you to the same services that have already rejected you. PIP requires a formal diagnosis, which requires years of waiting lists and assessments.

I’ve been fighting this system long before I ended up in a tent. The post explains that the state won’t help, and that’s not an exaggeration or an oversight on my part. I’ve tried.

On the test count: fair point. The 3,900+ is the core workspace (50 crates).

Satellite projects have their own test suites not included in that number. Coverage could be better. That’s part of what stability buys me.

On the LLMs: Claude Code for complex Rust architecture. Codex for pattern-heavy work. Gemini for docs and broad context. Qwen for parallel workloads. All running simultaneously with strict file ownership and pre-defined interface contracts.

But to be direct about what I’m actually looking for: I don’t want benefits. I don’t want PIP. I don’t want permanent support from the state. I want to use my brain, build complex systems, and turn AI research into reality.

What I need is 3 months of runway so I can do exactly that.

jamieoglindsey··on Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?
Thanks for the kind words.

To answer your question:

I architect everything. Every system design, every architecture doc, every interface contract, every integration decision. The kernel is a from-scratch Rust kernel. The hypervisor is a clean-room Rust implementation. The security model, the cognitive architecture, the 10-layer enforcement stack. All of that comes from 20 years of building systems and an autistic brain that can hold all of it in memory simultaneously.

I then orchestrate upto 10-12 parallel AI coding sessions, each working on a separate component with strict file ownership and interface contracts defined upfront.

It’s closer to being a lead architect directing a development team than it is to prompting ChatGPT and hoping for the best.

You can’t vibe code a kernel. You can’t vibe code a hypervisor. You can’t vibe code a BPF LSM policy compiler.

These things require deep understanding of what they are and how they connect. The AI types fast under my direction.

I’ve developed a methodology around this: roughly 25% of the codebase is architectural markdown that guides code generation, proto files coordinate between sessions, integration happens between batches.

It’s a disciplined process, not random prompting. Nobody accidentally produces 1.3M lines that compile and pass 3,900+ tests (that's the number of tests for the core project only, not the entire 1.3M LoC)