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Re: Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI

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It's a fascinating paradigm – as though it dropped here out of some future. However, I'd never use it. Reason: having everything dynamically created JIT means there's a trade-off somewhere else; in this case, it's energy consumption. I'd rather "cache" applications (ie. have them as installable software, which has been built just once ) than endlessly recreate software from scratch each time, with all the energy usag…

Thanks for the great feedback. That's why there is an app store in pneuma. You can upload and download pneuma generated apps from others. Give it a try!

Re: Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI

#24

how does pneuma deal with persistence of user data?

pairing this with rewind-like applications, it would seem that "user files" and particularly "user organized files" as a paradigm could also be completely unnecessary, as you recall states/activities/projects via intention and the agent presents you with the right abstraction to navigate those

Re: Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've built a list of common gotchas in the generation prompts. Also if the compilation fails it falls back to opus with the error message and code and can try again twice.

That's not a solution to the root problem. That is duct tape.

This is built with the paradigm of "don't build for the model of today, build for the model in 6 months" It currently works, which amazes me still, but it will get much better!

Re: Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI

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I don't think generating an app would be the move forward. Rather it should be an agentic application that can be installed/added and the main agent controls it. Building apps on the fly seems cool, But hits the frustration when they don't work at times, When building as a side project we tolerate it because we are in building phase, But when using we might not tolerate the issues. Finally the security also plays a m…

Yeah there is a pneuma agent/app store for that. And security permissions are built in also. pneuma asks for approval for the different rights the agent needs before running.

Re: Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI

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how does pneuma deal with persistence of user data?

pairing this with rewind-like applications, it would seem that "user files" and particularly "user organized files" as a paradigm could also be completely unnecessary, as you recall states/activities/projects via intention and the agent presents you with the right abstraction to navigate those

There is a build in filesystem handling system. For example, if you ask it to build a Todo task agent it will need to persist the tasks and their state to disk. It knows which syscalls to use in the pneuma microkernal and it builds with that in mind. When you start the app it will reauesf access to the file system.

Re: Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI

#29

It reminds me of: https://fabian-kuebler.com/posts/markdown-agentic-ui/ to an extent. I had a conversation with Claude on it. I work as an artist and webdev, so excuse my lack of technical knowledge on the matter: https://claude.ai/share/8b40cf7f-ecc6-452f-a550-3d1e5416b3e5

In the conversation I (mostly Claude, to be fair) was speculating about some caveats of fully on the fly generated ui/apps, in relation to ui/ux design and brand recognition, including how does ui/ux innovation enter the model if this is a paradigm shift, and what kind of job positions/skillsets would that paradigm destroy/create

Re: Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI

#30

> Currently it runs as a desktop app on Linux, macOS, and Windows Does that mean it's not actually an OS?

Hey. This is a fair remark and logical too. It's build to run in a sandbox on other OS now to ease uptake. Asking people to install a new OS because "trust me bro" is not gonna work.

That said it is build as an os. It generates real wasm that runs directly on the machine.

Porting to baremetal is next on the backlog. It will require embedding rust cranelift directory into pneuma amongst other things but the hardest/biggest and most architectural part is already done: wasm. You can check out the blog for more info.

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