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operating system appears in 18 chunks across 17 episodes, from 2024-02-20 to 2026-02-02.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 3/17/25 (2025-03-17), with 2 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with vertical saas, business model, and schelling point, while by chunk count it sits between higher quality and selection pressure; its yearly rank moved from #78 in 2024 to #140 in 2026.
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Range2024-02-20 to 2026-02-02Mean1.1 per episodePeak2 on 2025-03-17
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...l can bring its own UI, the host is no longer just a chat window. It becomes an operating system for little applications.
You can think of @modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps as a way to turn "a tool result" into "a tool result plus an interactive mic...
Ultra-wealthy people have whole family "operating systems" to help the logistics of their family run.
It's necessary for people with so many homes and logistics, but it would be useful for most families in ...
API : Operating system :: Library : Framework
The main difference in both is: Is the 3P stuff on the inside or outside?
People use "platform" to talk about any of these mea...
...njection attacks in the wild is a testament to the strength and maturity of our operating systems, not to a lack of demand for attacks.
Prompt injection cannot be solved by mechanistic approaches like vanilla code injection can.
Also remember, th...
If it's the operating system for your life, then losing access to it would be like losing a hemisphere of your brain.
It has to be something you can control.
At the Sequoia summi...
...usted code runs with access to trusted resources.
Typically only people writing operating systems, or eval'ing untrusted code had to care.
Many engineers dealt with the baby version of code injection, SQL injection.
SQL has no separation of contr...
Vertical saas gives us "operating systems" for businesses. Why don't we have it for consumers?
Vertical Saas is an extremely powerful business model.
It turns out that if you can create an "...
...e, interleaved with other tasks.
Why hasn't email been a center of our personal operating systems?[ud][ue][uf][ug]
It's hard to make email interactive enough.
On a technical basis, email is static, because it's not safe to allow emails from a thi...
...tical SaaS business model is so powerful because of the opinionated, integrated operating system for a specific kind of business: a system of record that everything at the customer business revolves around.
The opinion is part of the value; it ca...
...nt geographic area.
Then the hyper-stickiness of being the system of record or "operating system" for the customer gives durable margin.
Tech businesses (e.g. businesses that take VC funding) fundamentally presume a super-linear return.
That's on...
A new Operating System is incredibly hard to distribute.
The OS normally runs at the level of the hardware, and getting people to buy new hardware is a challenge.
That, and...
...LLM-powered chatbots play out?
Will it be more like search engines or more like operating systems?
Search engines:
Hard to build: expensive fixed cost that requires specialized knowhow.
Free: marginal cost can be supported by advertising
Easy for...
...ch to integrating with existing experiences for entities that don't control the operating system.
The fracking approach starts with a high-quality set of apps that opt themselves in (depth over breadth).
The "over-the-top" approach starts with a ...
... non-composable?
The reason is because of the same-origin model.
In traditional operating systems, different apps can coordinate via the filesystem.
That's powerful, but also dangerous (without protections).
Files are the natural schelling point ...
...ty from the wall?
What about if it was just the robot and you got to install an operating system of your choice?
When you send your data to another 3P service, the data is out of your view, and the 3P has agency to do whatever they want with it (...