Is VibeOS Real?

TLDR: Well, kinda. Probably not in a way that you've imagined.

This started as a fun hackathon project. The idea was to have an OS that completely controls your screen and can do anything that can both build back-end and front-end from one simple prompt. Basically the idea was to give Claude Code a UI that can edit and create for you, and on the other hand be able to plug that UI to real commands on your computer, be able to control hardware.

This is exactly what we built for the hackathon. However, the problem was that nobody understood what it does. I was going around the hackathon explaining to people that they literally have an operating system that is AI native, and nobody cared.

Until sometime in June someone from Microsoft made a viral video about VibeOS, an operating system that was completely vibe-coded. Then, because GitHub is so good at SEO, my repository got an insane amount of traffic. Someone I don't know also posted this site to Hacker News, where a good part of the thread was people asking each other whether this was serious or satire — which is the question in the title of this post, and the reason I'm finally answering it.

Now I want to clarify, there's no relation to either of the other two VibeOS projects.

Steve Sanderson's is the closest to mine: in both, the model generates the interface as you go. The difference is what that generated interface actually is. His hallucinates the HTML — it looks like an OS, but nothing runs behind it. Mine writes real UI code in flight, and that code is wired to a real backend, so it can talk to the operating system and run actual Linux commands. And mine is open source.

kaansenol5's is the other one: they've built an operating system using coding agents, while my project is a coding agent that is built into the operating system natively. Now it's not a full operating system, it's just a Docker container with Claude running in root access mode and having basically Next.js wired to the full-screen UI. But that's kind of a demo of where things are going.

If anyone wants to take over this project and build it into something great, I would be happy to share. This website still gets hundreds of visits daily, so it seems that people are really interested in that. I would love to collaborate on it.

Currently I'm working on agent experience and running evals for coding agents at 2027.dev. We're helping companies become more agent ready and give you suggestions on how to optimize your SDKs and APIs so that Claude has a better time working with them.