I agree, it has now become a cliche buzzword that product managers slap on boring non-technical things to make them sound important.

Isn’t there even a bug tracker that some company calls an ‘issue OS’ or something absurd?

Because it sounds impressive to clueless people ($).

From the GitHub page:

    This is not a traditional computer operating system. We use the term "operating system" in two senses:

    - An operating system for the company to be productive with AI, in a way that is safe, so that the security team can sleep at night.
    - An operating system for AI workloads, analogous to the sense in which a traditional operating system manages compute workloads.

I think because the idea of an "agent operating system" is starting to feel more and more inevitable. Since I can use AI to:

  - Pull information from external sources
  - Transform and/or augment that information
  - Publish information

Because AI enables a new layer more akin to an actual OS. But also because I imagine they all want all the things running through them and an OS is the widest net they can cast in that direction.

Cause they’re trying to build an ecosystem

Same reason why grifters adopted web3 when Web 3.0 was already an established term.

Andy Jassy et al didn't quite name it that, but AWS was being thought of internally as "Internet OS".

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It's better than "harness."

Because the English language evolves.