diff --git a/examples/benchmark/main.zig b/examples/benchmark/main.zig
index d8b0b47..28410c6 100644
--- a/examples/benchmark/main.zig
+++ b/examples/benchmark/main.zig
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ const flags = @import("tigerbeetle/flags");
 // set log level to debug to print the generated IR
 pub const std_options = .{
     .log_level = .warn,
+    .logFn = asynk.logFn(std.log.defaultLog),
 };
 
 pub fn benchmark(a: zml.Tensor, b: zml.Tensor) zml.Tensor {
diff --git a/examples/llama/main.zig b/examples/llama/main.zig
index cc63830..6c2a9df 100644
--- a/examples/llama/main.zig
+++ b/examples/llama/main.zig
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ const log = std.log.scoped(.llama);
 
 pub const std_options = .{
     .log_level = .info,
+    .logFn = asynk.logFn(std.log.defaultLog),
 };
 
 pub fn tokenizePromptLlama3(allocator: std.mem.Allocator, tokenizer: zml.tokenizer.Tokenizer, config: LlamaLM.Config, prompt: []const u8) ![]u32 {
diff --git a/examples/mnist/mnist.zig b/examples/mnist/mnist.zig
index 51ca1e4..c49300a 100644
--- a/examples/mnist/mnist.zig
+++ b/examples/mnist/mnist.zig
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
-const asynk = @import("async");
 const std = @import("std");
-const zml = @import("zml");
 
-const show_mlir = true;
+const asynk = @import("async");
+const zml = @import("zml");
 
 const log = std.log.scoped(.mnist);
 
 pub const std_options: std.Options = .{
-    .logFn = asynk.logFn,
     .log_level = .info,
+    .logFn = asynk.logFn(std.log.defaultLog),
 };
 
 /// Model definition