https://ss44.ca/tags/system-design/Recent content in System Design on Shajinder Singh Padda ~ a guy sitting in front of a computerHugoen-caMon, 06 Apr 2026 15:34:34 -0400https://ss44.ca/notes/2026-04-06-sathi.ai/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:34:34 -0400https://ss44.ca/notes/2026-04-06-sathi.ai/<p><strong> <a href="https://github.com/ss44/Sathi.Ai">Sathi.ai</a> </strong> is a Generative AI client plugin I built for <a href="https://github.com/AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell">Dank Material Shell (DMS)</a> . It allows users to interact with multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) directly from their Linux desktop shell, bypassing the need to constantly context-switch into a browser.</p> <figure class="center"> <img src="https://ss44.ca/notes/2026-04-06-sathi.ai/image_hu_d809e69b67035a53.png" alt="Sathi AI Interface" loading="lazy" /> </figure> <h3 id="the-motivation">The Motivation</h3> <p>Over the last few months, I grew increasingly frustrated with Windows 11 and decided to transition my primary workstations to Arch Linux. During this shift, I discovered <a href="https://github.com/niri-wm/niri">Niri</a> (a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor) and fell in love with Dank Material Shell—a clean, slightly opinionated, and highly customizable desktop environment.</p>