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1. thehamkercat · 1785939135 · focus · HN ↗

   Why are companies slapping "OS" in their product naming? it's stupid

   1. radlad · 1785940770 · focus · HN ↗

      I think because the idea of an "agent operating system" is starting to feel more and more inevitable. Since I can use AI to:

        - Pull information from external sources
        - Transform and/or augment that information
        - Publish information
      

      I almost do not need a traditional OS anymore. This obviously isn't entirely true: I still use it to interact directly with humans, and it's the way I access my LLM. For now.

      1. arandomhuman · 1785948752 · focus · HN ↗

         You need a "traditional" operating system to even run your LLM, or do you have your own custom collection of drivers you flash your machine with? :p

         1. radlad · 1785983355 · focus · HN ↗

            I already mentioned this:

            > This obviously isn't entirely true: [...] it's the way I access my LLM.

            It doesn't change my opinion that there's a very real possibility that we move to thin clients or microkernels intended primarily to run chat interfaces (or some other UI that organizes LLM sessions and their outputs) either locally on the hardware, or against cloud computing environments. An operating system is just the interface a user has with their computer.

            More to the point - it is possible to run an operating system on top of another operating system: this is what VMs are. I'm obviously not claiming that LLMs replace the glue between hardware and software(?!)

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