> though I would be surprised if it turns out not to be running Android in some form.

Just yesterday I saw a post I cant recall if on here or reddit, someone coded an entire OS with Claude Code, I would not be surprised if they invest AI compute at building an OS themselves, though I'd never buy a phone from these companies.

The person got it running on bare hardware.

Found it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wfpydl/i_asked_c...

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dktp 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The issue is getting developers to create apps for a new OS nobody uses (yet). And nobody will use it if they can't have their banking app and uber on it

This becomes even tougher if they go the Apple route and don't allow other phone manufacturers to use their OS. Alternatively, if they go down the Windows Phone route, we saw how that played out considering that Google _pays_ manufacturers to use Android

Making OS is very hard, but getting necessary adoption is likely even harder

	▲	theptip 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Honestly this might be less of a problem these days. If the model is that you build a good dev API and everyone points their agent at the software they need, then you don’t need the huge corporate investment in a full ecosystem. To be clear I don’t think we are fully ready for this to work. But directionally the trend looks significant.
	▲	ddarolfi 4 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I would be surprised if any AI forward OS is based around applications developed by other people. I imagine the OS will create the software you need. Thing's like banking apps are more difficult, but I imagine OpenAI could sort that out behind the scenes.
	▲	jmspamerton 28 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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dspillett 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> someone coded an entire OS with Claude Code

I, as someone who would rather leave the industry than become a manager of either people or autonomous agents, or worse just a meat-based relay, am truly obsolete.

Do you want fries with that?

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KaiserPro 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

porting an OS to a known platform which has been done a tonne of times before is very different to trying to create a power efficient, secure and fast OS on hardware that is not yet locked down, let alone released.

Moreover the interaction between firmware and the OS is a massive headache to overcome, especially if you are dealing with battery powered devices.

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fidotron an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Android has a huge amount of battle tested stuff for running things like media codecs and GPUs connected to devices that are not rebooted for months on end by normal people. (The iPhone wasn't an entirely new OS either for a good reason).

The whole vibe coding an OS might become a thing in the next few years, but you still have to QA and test it, and there simply hasn't actually been enough time for that.