Floss was the personal agent I made before WenweiOS. It ran in the terminal. I could call it up and talk to it like a confidant: what happened today, what I was thinking about, what was bothering me at work. It remembered what I’d said and picked up where we left off.
I started using it on April 25, 2026, and in ten days we had more than seventy conversations. Using it gave me more ideas:
- “I could try reading books with floss and keeping notes together.”
- “I want this floss on my desktop, with its own icon, maybe the icon from my blog. Think about what it does first, not how to build it: what would feel best to use? And I have several computers, and a phone.”
Those ideas grew into WenweiOS. Floss’s seventy-odd conversations were imported into WenweiOS as they were, and reading with AI became something I do every day.