I imagine in the future someone will make an Agent-First OS that is entirely built from the ground up to be run by AI and runs off the assumption that there are no human users or that their usage is limited. That will be interesting, imagine all the things you could do differently, the design choices you could make. You lose a lot by accommodating human ergonomics.

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Waterluvian 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

What might you imagine being different in an “agent first OS” compared to a terminal only Linux distribution?

	▲	mike_hearn 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I can imagine a different UI. Instead of a browser with tabs and an address bar, you have a series of infinitely scrolling "terminals" with a chat bar at the bottom. Each one is just a chat session into which objects like web pages, images, etc can be embedded and they scroll horizontally a bit like multiple desktops do. You could zoom in and out as much as you want, the goal is to let you easily monitor many parallel tasks. From the AI's perspective a filesystem that vector indexes data on the fly would make sense, perhaps, along with an ability for the user to share out fine-grained permissions with it.
	▲	deadbabe 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No I/O, ability to mount vectors and graphs, bare metal file system, structured traces, deterministic replayability of commands

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pjerem 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

For now, I still have hard time believing in unattended agents. Be it using a computer or generating programs.

I mean that would sure be a nice demo, but it’s too probabilistic to give AI agents real tasks (and it seems that isn’t going to change anytime soon).

It’s all fun and games until it implies spending money and/or taking responsibility.

And be it in personal life or in businesses, money and responsibility are vital things.

Sure you can ask LLMs to generate a minesweeper game with custom rules or ask it to summarize headlines from HN.

Releasing a program an unattended agent generated to real clients that pay you or asking it to order a non refundable flight ticket is something else.

However, I can see the point of an agent that uses my computer while I watch it.

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