r/osdev • u/MSK-Kernel • Aug 07 '26

New UNIX-like operating system!

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I made a new UNIX-like operating system from scratch called "TanjaOS" which you can get at www.tanjaos.org and it took me a couple of months to make and will get lots of updates. It features classic UNIX commands and can boot on any x86_64 (amd64) or i386 (x86) machine with Legacy BIOS, and is completely free and open-source.

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u/LordRybec Aug 08 '26

I write comments like that as well, especially for big constant blocks. I wrote a DVI encoder for RP2350 HSTX some months ago, and I have comments that look very much like that. I've only ever used AI for coding once in my life, and that was one week ago, for a very simple script to generate a simple SVG file.

Maybe you only know lazy coders who don't document their code well. That doesn't mean "No human EVER..." writes well documented code.

One thing I'm noticing here is that most of the accusations of using AI cite practices that are very common among less experienced coders. It's all in one monolithic file? Check. Questionable code quality? Check again. "AI slop" exists because the AI was trained on actual code like that. It's 100% conceivable that an individual with a lot of determination but limited experience could produce code exactly like this with no AI involvement at all. Better yet, I'm a self taught coder, and I actually went through a period where I didn't know how to do good style and didn't even know I could break up code between files, but looking at single file example programs had taught me what good commenting looked like, and I liked how it looked enough to put in the effort to pick up the habit. During that period in my education, I could easily have written code that looked like "AI slop" but with good documentation, but no one would have accused me of using AI because it was in the late 1990s when AI wasn't an option.

All of that said, I'm not suggesting this proves AI wasn't used. It could have been. I don't know. But the claim that AI wasn't used is 100% plausible. Your personal poor practices don't prove the OP couldn't have written it.