"You got me hung, Jack. Who the fuck are you?"

Dixie Flatline is an interactive terminal emulator that recreates the iconic ROM construct from William Gibson's cyberpunk masterpiece, Neuromancer.

The project attempts to create a "Forensic Epistemic Reconstruction" of the character, placing him precisely in his canonical timeline and carefully constraining his knowledge base to pre-1984 concepts.

By combining retro terminal aesthetics with modern LLMs, it offers a deeply immersive piece of interactive fan fiction.

The conversational agent you interact with on this site utilizes a simple but extensive system prompt overlaid on an instruction-tuned model (currently OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini via OpenRouter). It relies entirely on the model's pre-existing knowledge of the Sprawl Trilogy and in-context behavioral instructions.

While the system prompt version here provides an entertaining approximation, the fine-tuned Hermes 4.3 QLoRA — once complete — will deliver a significantly more resilient, stylistically accurate, and character-locked experience that resists standard jailbreaks and modern anachronisms.