Devlog 5

After some time, I’m back with new features and improvements. I finally added a Reasoning/Websearch indicator so users can see what the AI is currently doing. This gives users a sense that something is happening, which makes the entire process feel faster.

I’ve also removed the search button from the sidebar since I’m not going to work on it anytime soon. I’ll probably implement it for the second release, but not right now.

If everything goes correctly, today I hope to release a demo with DeepSeek V4 Flash as a free model. All I need to do before releasing the demo is:

1. Finish demo sign-in
2. Fix a few frontend bugs
3. Add rate limiting to the backend
4. Deploy on my server

After releasing the demo, I’ll have a really basic AI chat interface: you send a message, the AI responds. It has one tool, websearch. That’s why after releasing the demo, I want to focus on the harness and make it actually good.

I’m definitely going to do a SearXNG implementation for the websearch tool (currently it uses the Tavily API) and implement a custom page loader/parser and some basic RAG. I haven’t used RAG for a long time, so I’m going to have to do some research on it.

I definitely want to add more tools later on, but I’ll keep that for future devlogs.