Ritchie programs can now declare and call stateless services on a local monolith target. Not long before the same program would work whether you want monoliths or micro-services!
- Ritchie aims for greater cross-application compatibility with built-in temporal types ritchie.dev/news/date-and-… Better late than never!
- Just tried ASD-STE100 for QUIC and Paxos. For these two, the STE version was comparable to default English. For one of my own slop 10-pagers, STE was just 1 page and very clear. I guess well-known concepts also have well-known explainers but new stuff will benefit a lot.We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for
- Manoeuvrability and collaborative capability of models must be given as much weightage as intelligence. GPT-5.6 Sol > Fable 5.1 (tweaked) >> GPT-6 Astra > Opus 5 on that scale.
- Working with probabilistic tools creates a whole new class of change verification issues. How do you do automated testing for this?


