My Computing Prayer (ryansepassi.com)

Ryan Sepassi’s “My computing prayer” is a manifesto calling for a new, personal operating system: a durable, privacy-first, federated platform that treats “my system” as independent of any single device or vendor. He sketches a wishlist — seamless multi-device sync (including offline-first behavior), cryptographic identity and delegable capabilities, durable app state and universal undo, programmable trust, open import/export formats, and the ability to run and reproduce programs across phones, desktops, servers and IoT for decades. Sepassi situates the vision among predecessors (UNIX, Plan 9, Inferno, Oberon, Solid, Fediverse) but argues we should try again with modern primitives. Technically concrete, the essay calls for cryptographic building blocks (threshold signing, capability attenuation, ZK proofs), append-only logs and copy-on-write storage, distributed consensus libraries, reliable hole-punching and encrypted streams, hermetic reproducible builds, a language/runtime with linear types and capability-based safety, reactive UI, federated namespaces, and cross-platform targets down to ESP32/STM32. For the AI/ML community the significance is twofold: such a platform would enable verifiable, reproducible agent behaviors and safer, privacy-preserving data flows, and Sepassi provocatively invites LLMs (and their builders) to implement it now — even proposing a bounty to prove LLM-driven software can deliver a working, open personal OS.