Recently I took on a contract job to fill the coffers a bit while HiredCoach handles its initial launch. Nothing that I can talk that much about publicly, but I can reveal that it’s your typical AI office assistant for a particular business process. As specific as it is exciting a description, I’m sure.
Given that I recently wrote an entire article about the highs and lows of my custom framework, arkaine - and within I mention that I lkely won’t continue developemnt on that particular implementation of those ideas I wouldn’t exactly want to pull it out for a client hoping for their PoC to be easily maintainable for future developers as they pursue it; it’s too esoteric a framework and oto tied to my own development preferences.
That being said, I still have difficulty finding a replacement that works in the way I enjoy or rate highly. I find myself wishing for several of the features and niceties I baked into arkaine. I view it as a reassuring sign that I was onto something with a few ideas there.
As an additional note - Web research agents that are useful are hard to get right. I’ve built these three times now and still feel like they are tricky to make them reliable and performant.
I started working on “arkaine 2.0” (which will likely be the 0.1.0); whether I continue on it remains to be seen, as it is architectually a gigantic change. I’m playing with Merkle trees and more controlled syncing paired with better serialization and compression, as well sa more flexible composable functions without falling into the overly verbose repetitive context nesting we ran into before.