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Hobby Operating System

by @mordenx

Developing a novel hobby operating system with Claude. I'm acting as stakeholder and Claude is writing all code and documentation. Using it as a fun project through which to learn how to work collaboratively with an AI. We started on the 10th June with a list of 14 principals for the OS and development process. Now we're up with a UI on x86_64, Aarch64, and RiscV64. All done in QEMU so far, but beginning the migration to hardware, now that I've finished going through the shopping list Claude made me. I haven't had this much fun with technology a long while. Every day brings some new milestone in the project, or a fun thought I've had turned into reality. A few weeks ago I got Fable to write the first book about the OS, and had a great few days reading it.

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