Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

The research over the past two decades has made something clear that caught even specialists off guard: intolerance of uncertainty isn’t a feature of one disorder. It’s a transdiagnostic vulnerability — a shared foundation beneath anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, and a wide range of emotional disturbances

The right way to leverage AI in workspace is as a license to work better and focus on the right things, not as a mandate to produce more things faster.

SysInfo is an application for Motorola 680x0 based Classic Amiga and is used for getting information about the system like OS and library versions, hardware revisions and stuff.

LLMs aren't quite the Enterprise computer — you still have to give them the right interface and the right system guidance — but with that scaffolding in place, a surprising amount of the practical value is there. This is the thing I dreamed computers could do when I was a kid flipping through Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, poking around on the early internet, then the early web. Not just store and retrieve, but process — take your mess and give it back to you organized around your actual needs. It's here. Not perfectly, not without friction, but here.

Commodore Amiga - Operating Systems - Workbench

A unique Gotek Mount for the Amiga A1200 that moves the interface (OLED screen + rotary encoder) to a “floppy” sticking out of the mount, simulating a real floppy.

The Open Source Web Agent Evaluation Framework

Finally, an online ‘cyberpunk’ game that comes close to portraying computing as depicted in classic cyberpunk works like Neuromancer by William Gibson. In this game the player is a NetRunner, an arrogant and bold futuristic hacker. Armed with his cyberdeck and an arsenal of offensive, defensive and analysis software he’s ready to invade corporate systems in the grid and raid their credits, for fame and fortune! It’s no cakewalk though! Waiting for the unwary are Intrusion Counter-measures (IC). Machine controlled defenses that can inflict damage to hardware and software, steal the players own credits and even cause… death.

The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse

Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, tackling complex tasks.

I recently purchased an Amiga 1200 which has hard drive support through an internal IDE connector. Adding a hard drive is appealing since booting from floppy disk or a Gotek floppy drive emulator can be quite tedious and slow. The good news is that there are solid state options using compact flash (CF) or secure digital (SD) card solutions through an IDE adapter. I went with a CF card adapter that I purchased for less than $30 from AmiKit on eBay. This is shown below inserted into the IDE slot on my 1200.