If you work in technology, you've felt it. The relentless stream of AI announcements, demos, tutorials, and hot takes.

Heck, I'm part of it - I host The Vibe PM Podcast and push out demos every two weeks. The gap between what's being demonstrated and what you're actually using feels like it's widening, not closing. You've tried the chat interfaces, had some good conversations, but there's this nagging sense that you're barely scratching the surface.

That feeling is valid. Most people are using AI as a slightly smarter search engine. But, what I'm about to describe is something fundamentally different - and I'm giving you a ready-to-use GitHub repository to get started today. No technical skills required. You'll be guided through step-by-step with an accompanying video and well-supported documentation.

Total investment: 30 minutes - reading this article plus setup. You'll recoup that time 10x over within a week of use.

This Is the Year of the Personal Operating System

2026 is the year individuals can build AI systems tailored to their exact way of working. No coding required. Not chat interfaces. Not assistants you query occasionally. Actual operating systems that run alongside you, handling cognitive overhead, tracking commitments, surfacing what needs attention, and getting smarter every time you use them.

AI can now work across all your files (not just what you paste into chat), actually do things - create tasks, update notes, prep your meetings - and remember everything about how you work. This enables something fundamentally different from what was possible even a year ago.

The gap is widening right now. Not next year - this quarter. The people building these systems today will have a year's head start by summer.

Introducing Dex

Andrey Karpathy - the godfather of vibe coding - revealed something this week in a thread with Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code. In December 2025, he says, AI coding capabilities crossed a "threshold of coherence" - the point where it went from occasionally useful to reliably buildable. The difference between a demo that impresses and infrastructure you can actually depend on.

Boris's response is telling. His team now writes 100% of their code with Claude Code. But then he says something crucial: "We will then start seeing similar stats for non-coding computer work also."

That threshold of coherence - I felt it in December. That's when everything shifted.

I've spent eight months using simple text files in Cursor for my personal knowledge management - projects, notes, tasks all in markdown (.md files - just plain text structured in a way AI understands exceptionally well). I'd work with AI to update them, figure out what to do next, keep things organized. It worked. But as the system grew, it was becoming increasingly brittle.

Then December hit. Anthropic released powerful new capabilities - alongside innovations from the community - that made me see what I'd built in an entirely different light. Suddenly what was fragile became something I could trust.

That realization is what I'm bringing to you today by open-sourcing Dex.

A secure personal operating system that runs on your computer with your files, your context, your career goals. It's there to keep you accountable and help you have far greater impact - and more fun - in your work.

Dex works immediately. The system teaches you as you go. You don't need to understand the mechanics to start. Just use it. The fluency builds naturally.

Who Dex Is For

This article, the accompanying episode 8 of The Vibe PM Podcast (which includes a demo), and the GitHub repository I've created are specifically for non-engineers.

And not just Product folk. Anyone in any function - People, Sales, Design, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Operations. C-suite executives and individual contributors alike.

Don't be intimidated by what follows. The repo includes an onboarding flow that adapts to your role - tell it you're a CMO and it scaffolds a system appropriate for content and market intelligence. Tell it you're a VP of Sales and it sets up deal tracking and coaching workflows.

The goal is simple: give yourself a personal operating system that actually works. One that keeps you accountable, helps you have more impact, and makes work more fun. Then teach you enough about how it works that you can customize it for exactly how you work - or build something entirely different.

Continue reading the full article with detailed instructions for building a personal operating system here.