VibeOS – A Singular Expression Of Everything Awful About AI Hype

I am not a typical anti-AI crusader. I use LLMs myself, though in very specific, limited ways when they’re useful, and do not use them when they’re not. But yesterday, I ran across videos demonstrating VibeOS, a “fully hallucinated operating system,” and hoo boy. It is an operating system without any code or installed programs. Instead, in this demo, it uses CoPilot to use underlying prompts to have an LLM recreate Windows 95 and applications on the fly each time. It isn’t a joke. But it is a textbook example of the absolute stupidity of the AI hype bubble. Oh, sure, it looks impressive at first. It’s pretty fascinating, from one point of view, that you can get bespoke programs where that means you can type in things like “Encarta except it’s all about a specific topic.” And you’ll get something that looks like Encarta (with some really obviously not-accurate data in the demo). But that also means that every time you run a program, the LLM recreates the program and UI each and every…