DEV Blog 27 - Project Updates

A comprehensive overview of my Advanced Gospel Initiatives

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General sentiment: nervous energy

It’s been amazing to witness AI coding and software development working so well. I found out that my usage is heavy enough that I was contacted by the Factory.ai developer relationship team to participate in some opinion and survey work on some changes they’re making more broadly later. This is normal in software and I’m happy to help if I can.

It is getting a little more familiar going to bed and knowing that my MacBook is coding for hours until morning. I had a little bit of a lurch last night when I saw that my MacBook was in the process of rebooting (oh no!) while in a full blown coding effort. However, I was able to resume the mission and finish without any apparent impact to the integrity of the codebase. This made me more confident that these long running / long horizon workflows are reliable enough to do more often.

I will be continuing to make the judgement call on when to use the Factory.ai Mission system on a case-by-case basis.

Web 3.0 Projects

I have completed a round of testing on this solution. Praise report: Tomorrow, I have a meeting with the President of the ministry that I’ve done this new website for. It’s been audited and reconciled to the best of my ability. It looks like it’s doing everything correctly. I can’t wait to introduce myself to this man, explain my long background with the ministry he is now leading, and get to demo what I’ve done. This has been three years in the works (with the former President, now retired.)

There are deployment processes that have to happen yet. I did fund my crypto wallet to get a jump on the initial expense. Pray for favor as I have to remember complex workflows involving Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT’s) which is used to sign Web 3.0 content mounting. It’s slightly nerve wracking because a lot of things have changed.

Platform Diversification

New this week is pushing up an upgrade to Rapture Kit on one of the major cloud providers. This is platform 2 of 3. Platform 1 has been in production for just over year and powers (this) and other domains. But mounting 60+ GB of content is not the only dependency. Our next step is to get domains pointed to this new source of Rapture Kit static content. The platform has the v3.1 content specification on it—the very latest.

With respect to nervous energy theme for this post, my volunteer geek team ;) is pushing pretty hard to get these technical bits into production. Most of us sense urgency.

Bible Bench

I did an awful lot of work this week on Bible Bench with Josh the auditor. It is quite amazing the amount of progress we’re making step-by-step. True fact, sometimes when you look at a dashboard, there is “extra stuff” on the report and it’s a little too much information. So, in one of those moments of clarity (thank You Holy Spirit!) and all your prayers (thank you, team!) I found that there was some heavy lifting the app was doing that was not supposed to be needed to support the analysis.

In a high-risk/high-reward moment, using Factory.ai Missions, I was able to let AI grind through a substantial refactoring effort while I was sleeping. In the morning, it was mostly there. After reviewing the changes, I just had a little bit of fine-tuning to do. But wow did it make things simpler. The details aren’t important, but Josh and I are seeing more simplicity in the app now. Praise God for that. You may not know this, but the apex of professional software product outcomes is when the code becomes more elegant. This is a mysterious principle that describes well executed design. It just looks right. Often, when it starts looking clearer and simpler, you know that it’s a good place to be.

I also added several new reports:

• TOP 10 Worst by Model - I want a quick way to show the worst outcomes between the Edit Distance (definition) by Vladimir Levenshtein (here). The Edit Distance is the matrix match approach to comparing (scoring) how one string of text (a verse) needs to be modified to conform to another string or verse. This report takes the worst and ranks them by LLM model.

• AI Model Summary - This is a high-level score across the entire English KJV for the three key LLM models are performing with respect to Scripture extraction from AI. It rolls up all the verse-by-verse metrics into a single snapshot. Very useful for overall understanding.

• ETL Workload Status - I’m still doing the first round of ETL and I do not have all books and chapters and verses loaded into the database yet. Why? Well, it’s expensive. And I don’t want to over invest in ingestion until I am certain that our audit results justify that expense. This report shows me what still needs to be ingested by book, chapter and model. It will eventually be the driver for the remaining ETL workload as I get a v1.0 of the Bible Bench analysis.

• Structured Query Traces - It’s not completely fair to fail an AI for not being able to retrieve Scripture on just one try. So, there are a series of recovery steps that I take to ensure that we do our very best to give the AI a fair chance at completion. What’s surprised me most is how poorly OpenAI’s GPT5.0-mini is doing. Nevertheless, I record every recovery attempt as an audit trail so that folks see the amount of effort we’re putting into this project.

RKPi5 (Raspberry Pi Project)

Although I received a patched version of WAMPi with Rapture Kit content preloaded on it for testing, I have not been able to test it yet. Kevin and I are continuing to help George with WAMPi, which is the Enterprise version if you will, of RKPi5. I hope to have more updates next week.

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I am really happy to report that refactoring and simplification efforts to move the ETL pipeline into the frontend have been going well. The ETL can now be triggered all the way through production in one pass! That is a MAJOR PRAISE!!! Thank you for praying!!

Yeah, so as always, there is some tuning that has still has to take place. I did indeed truncate the collections to the tune of 700 production articles and about 13k in staging in order to get narrowly focused on more thoroughly unit-testing the system. So far, I’m very happy with the results. Boy, I’m chewing through tokens $$$ right now. But it has to be done.

I don’t know if I remember telling this to you last week, but I also spec’d out my first dashboard. I’m chomping at the bit, but that is going to have to wait until more foundational testing is completed.

And in yet another milestone, for the first time, I was able to open the fly-out filter panel (slides out from the right side) and perform a clear text search term. BANG!! It worked perfectly! I was overjoyed to see the Atlas Cluster Full Text Search indexing system working. Amazing! Still need to resolve how to use semantic (vector) search…but I think I know what’s happening there and will work on it later.

In the meantime, a lot of steady progress is being made.

Book 6 - The Dax Hunter Files

Gary is traveling with his wife visiting family and taking a much deserved mental break from Book 6. I however, am slaving away at a full redline editing effort of nearly 350+ pages while he’s gone. In the past, I’ve done this for A Bastion of Truth (Book 4) and A Crisis of Faith (book 5). We are trying to do a little time compression because our launch date is coming up!

Keep looking for the new Announcements header (see the top of this page) for the timing of our first joint interview specifically talking about A Crisis of Faith and our progress on Book 6 by someone you all know. It will be an incredible time.

Please support Gary Albyn … it helps me too. I should mention that there is no financial benefit to me. Gary is a personal friends of mine. I just want to step up and help out to the best of my ability.

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Long Term Roadmap

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My prayer requests:

1. I’ve been battling the effects of a change to three of my medications. I haven’t been feeling 100% recently, but I’m so grateful for everyone’s help praying me through this. I found out yesterday that Brother Eric Barger of Take A Stand Ministries has been recovering from pneumonia. Please pray for this full recovery. He is sharing the stage with me at the Last Days Bible Conference in early May.

2. Praise for connection with the ministry I’m trying to preserve their Gospel materials before we’re raptured. The ultimate hand-off to the next generation of believers. Now, please pray for the meeting that will begin at 10:30 tomorrow Pacific. I may or may not be able to share more about this, it depends. I just appreciate it if you’d pray ahead of this strategic meeting!

3. Pray for Bible Bench. Both Josh and I feel like we’re going through the wringer sometimes. We’d both covet your prayer. It is a very special gift the Lord gave me to have this man step up in such a beautiful way. Please acknowledge this in your prayers to the Lord and thank him! Although we are simplifying as we prepare for the final audit steps, there still seems like work to do.

4. Pray for Gary’s enjoyment of his time and for safe travels next week as he returns home. We will be tackling a furious pace once his jet-lag runs its course. There is a lot to do but the end is in sight, God willing.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

#Maranatha

YBIC,
Scott