Fresh/Brewed

A 1980s Airline Repair guide may be a cure for AI Slop

How a 30 year old reduced English standard applies to LLM tech writing today

In the last few days I’ve been rather fixated on this YouTube video called “The cure for AI slop is a 1986 aircraft manual”. If you like more of a narrative, pause here and watch the video. First, a bit of context… Simplified Technical English has its starts going all the way back to the 1930s with “Basic English” and later the 1970s with CFE, Caterpillar Technical English and Kodak International Service Language (KISL). Per the CFE documentation:

Antigravity Status Lines

Spare any tokens?

I was recently working in Antigravity trying to fix some stylesheets when I hit my AI Pro limit: That hadn’t happened to me until today (and I bounced over to Github Copilot to finish the task), but the situation reminded me of a project I had bookmarked some time back, Agy Statusline And once I started setting up status lines, it sparked me to look at a few more options. In this post we’ll actually explore five different status line offerings from a variety of developers.

Herdr and Hunk

slick split sessions & dandy durable diffs

Herdr is an interesting project that I noted initially as a TMUX variant, but really is much much more. It’s designed to ‘herd’ your long running LLM agents to make it much easier to dance between sessions. I’m not a AI Agent gangsta like I know some are, but I do like to mutli-task over a lot of windows and wanted to give it a good try. Another tool on my list is a command line Diff viewer, Hunk. I saw Hunk used in a YT video and thought it looked pretty slick. We’ll check that out as well.

Auth0 and Ornith 9b

Some fresh LLM with a bit of Auth to wash it down

Two things I want to tackle today. The first is testing out Auth0 which is a well established Federated IdP provider. However, I really haven’t looked at it in years. No reason for that, just my needs are generally met by just one ore two IdPs which are easy enough to setup. The other area I want to explore is the new Ornith:9b LLM model. It’s supposedly self-improving. That said… I have concerns… such as their announcement text has multiple misspelled words (not a good sign)

Small OS: Notediscovery (with MCP) and Lockstep

A fully self contained scheduling system with MCP

Today we’ll take a look at NoteDiscovery, a very interesting Markdown tool that is more geared towards Knowledge management for GenAI then for documentation (Like Docussaurus and the like). We will look at using it in docker and it’s MCP server. Could we make our own self-hosted chatbot system? We will also look at Lockstep, a security auditing tool that helps people focus on best practices and compliance. NoteDiscovery Let’s take a look at NoteDiscovery which I saw in this Marius post a while back.