This vibe-coded operating system looks like a nightmarish version of our AI OS future, although some of the function keys change the wallpaper so that's fun

This vibe-coded operating system looks like a nightmarish version of our AI OS future, although some of the function keys change the wallpaper so that’s fun | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Operating Systems Rumor that Microsoft plans to launch a ‘modular’ Windows 12 this year retracted by its source, refuted by others [Updated] Strategy Heart of the Machine review: A fascinating grand strategy RPG that starts to buckle under its own ambitions AI ‘I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb’: OpenClaw AI chose to ‘speedrun’ deleting Meta AI safety director’s inbox due to a ‘rookie error’ AI ‘I taught my dog to vibe code games’: Yup, someone actually managed to get Claude AI to code a game based on the keyboard inputs of a pooch AI A plague of AI-generated Homer Simpson cover songs is reportedly swamping a popular music file sharing network with the big yellow fella’s dulcet tones AI Microsoft uses plagiarized AI slop flowchart to explain how Github works, removes it after original creator calls it out: ‘Careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently’ AI A human software engineer rejected an AI agent’s code change request, only for the AI agent to retaliate by publishing an ‘angry’ blog about him Linux I’m brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop AI This space MMO was coded by AI, is played by AI, and all us meatbags can do is watch them AI This AI bot roasts any website URL you give it and it’s hilariously, scathingly mean AI A redditor claims to have found a horrifying, AI-generated, multi-limbed figure in a rental house listing photo and it’s exactly the sort of Phasmophobia-style jump scare I didn’t need this morning Linux 2025 might have been the year for Linux gaming, but there’s still a way to go until I switch from Windows AI Microsoft CEO says ‘I look at all agents as users’, and that means AI ones too, as each agentic bot ‘will have its own identity’ Hardware Dell’s CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I’ve had in maybe 5 years AI Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says it’s time to stop talking about AI ‘slop’ and start talking about a ‘theory of the mind that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools’ PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!Resident EvilArc RaidersBest PC gearGame Quizzes Software Operating Systems This vibe-coded operating system looks like a nightmarish version of our AI OS future, although some of the function keys change the wallpaper so that’s fun News By Andy Edser published 5 March 2026 I guess we should be impressed that it works at all. 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter I Tried a Vibe-Coded Operating System – YouTube Watch On Every now and then, someone brings up the haunting spectre of an AI-focused Windows 12. While recent rumours about the fabled, unicorn-like OS have since been debunked, it’s not difficult to imagine an operating system that may one day be developed by AI, and all the horrors that might entail.Or indeed, you could just develop one now and see how it turns out (via Hackaday). Enter Vib-OS, a vibe-coded operating system described as a “from-scratch, Unix-like operating system with full multi-architecture support for Arm64 and x86_64” coded with Claude.You say Unix, I say the future of a Windows that never was—and hopefully, shall never be. Thankfully, I don’t have to test out whatever spaghetti code the AI deemed was suitable to run an OS, as YouTuber tirimid has done all the hard work for me. And the video, you’ll be pleased to hear, is an absolute riot. You may like An absolute madman has recreated the Windows 8 UI—for Linux If you want to scrub Windows 11’s AI features off the face of the earth some legend has made a tool that does just that This space MMO was coded by AI, is played by AI, and all us meatbags can do is watch them Tirimid likes testing weird operating systems, and has a nine-point checklist to run through of tasks to complete in each of them. First up: booting!Setting up a virtual machine, tirimid installed the iso with 4 GB of memory allocation and a four-core processor. Unfortunately, the installer began looking for a mac