Updated: 2026-02-27 10:13
So, a lot has been going on, I got quite a lot of progress under the belt before my latest problems with that LLM and vibe coding, so yesterday I didn't do a lot with it; rather, I chased around google support for a day or so while everything else moves on without me.
Late yesterday afternoon, I got bored, and decided I'd check in on it, and so I cranked up a new, smaller, less complex software engineering task to see if I could take the measure of its state of mind, if you will.
It seemed to be ok, so I quite carefully and concisely vibe coded a markdown reader/editor. Honestly, it still needs a few features. Mostly the ability to move the cursor with a mouse click, and perhaps delete selection; select, copy and paste are already provided by the terminal. It isn't stupidly simple like Plan9/Android, but it's real close. As far as markdown support goes, the thing operates in 24 bit color space, incorporates a unicode character pallete, and a markdown construct injector that injects clean markdown with defaults for that day when you just cant seem to get the mother-thumpin' table the way it should be.
I'm about to resume work on bluesnake-ai. It is no laughing matter; it is on the verge of being brought to a level of sophistication whereby it can be expected to debug and improve itself, with or without 'a human in the loop', according to it's configuration; and there are other things that need attention I'm sure. I am hopeful I can get it off the ground at last, as it is actually pretty sophisticated vs. it's peers. I refuse to call them competition, as the space is not sufficiently stratified in the 'commonality of the people'....that is to say, there are corporate, moneyed interests that use agentic workflows, but, from what I have seen so far, open source agentic workflows are sprouting up everywhere, and they working well together to accomplish things, things that serve us, not corporations. Unfortunately, many of them have few or no guardrails. So I at least have that happening...
So yah, just a quick update/test of gmd in action (gmd is Gemini MarkDown). It has already served me well.
Cheers! 🚀
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