{
  "id": 16538792,
  "title": "alchi: I let a 1B model write my standups, and taught it not to lie",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/alchi-i-let-a-1b-model-write-my-standups-and-taught-it-not-to-lie",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-26T00:44:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/gadalsandesh123/alchi-i-let-a-1b-model-write-my-standups-and-taught-it-not-to-lie-35fm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This is a story about a man named alchi, who uses an AI model to write his standups and timesheets. He calls this tool \"alchi\" which means \"lazy\" in Nepali. Alchi is a 1B model running on his local machine using Gemma 3 1B via Ollama. It reads his git commits and file edits to summarize his projects and generate a standup and timesheet. The model checks the output against his actual activity and discards any lines it doesn't find enough evidence for. This helps prevent the AI from making up information. Alchi has saved him about 10 minutes a week on writing his standups.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built alchi (अल्छी) means \"lazy\" in Nepali. It writes my standup and my weekly timesheet so I don't have to. I work on a lot of small projects at once: my portfolio, a video bot, a few websites. Some are git repos, some are just folders I keep editing. When someone asks \"what did you do this week?\",…",
  "key_points": [
    "Alchi uses a 1B AI model named \"Alchi\" to write standups and timesheets.",
    "The model reads git commits and file edits to generate summaries.",
    "Alchi prevents AI from lying by checking output against actual activity."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}