This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady

What I Built

logwhisper is a small Go CLI that reads production log lines and explains them in plain English: what happened, the likely cause, and the next thing to check.

logwhisper examples/production.log cat app.log | logwhisper -model llama3.2:3b

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The AI part runs entirely on my own machine through Ollama and an open-weight model (Llama 3.2). No API key, no cloud call, no log line ever leaving the box.

Who gets to be a little lazier because of it? The on-call version of me. The tool was born from a familiar 2 a.m. scene: an incident, a wall of log lines, and the slow work of reading them one by one until a pattern shows up.…