Oddbean

With SOTA LLM’s you can write your own bootloader that boots your pc into a runtime environment that does not require an OS. You can actually have the LLM’s write bare metal code that runs. You can do RAM only systems. With LLM’s it’s not that hard to break outside the shell on just about any machine. You can boot into bare metal and just skip the entire OS. You can initialise network hardware and do really specific highly optimal stuff running bare metal code. I don’t think we need operating systems or programs any more, this sounds so stupid but I think the whole tech stack is like Wylie Coyote, I think in 10 years the entire runtime environment and application layer might just self assemble on boot as the user prompts an LLM to ad hoc code the whole stack to execute some task. It will be more powerful, more feature specific, faster, more malleable.

Yes, people are talking about how LLM’s make English a programming language and how they use English prompts to write Python response. This is obviously dumb. We should be using LLM’s to translate English prompts into assembly code and running on bare metal. Bootloader + LLM is all you need. No apps, no OS, no 3rd parties. It’s vastly more secure because you’re only running your own code and it’s completely novel on every boot.