My understanding is the DOT gets pissy if locals fill in the pothole themselves, but I imagine that there's enough interested people to do vigilante road repair if they weren't subject to government harrassment.

"Vigilante Road Repair" - cool band name - I call it!

I'd assume it was the nature of the case, and that discovery was done with him being dead.

Might there be a way to leverage local models just to help minimize the retries -- doing the tool calling handling and giving the agent "perfect execution"?

I'm a noob and am asking as wishful thinking.

> I'm a noob and am asking as wishful thinking.

Don't minimize your thoughts! Outside voices and naive questions sometimes provide novel insights that might be dismissed, but someone might listen.

I've not done this exactly, but I have setup "chains" that create a fresh context for tool calls so their call chains don't fill the main context. There is no reason why the Tool Calls couldn't be redirected to another LLM endpoint (local for instance). Especially with something like gpt-oss-20b, where I've found executing tools happens at a higher success than claude sonnet via openrouter.

Or the fact that you have to re-up for Pre-TSA -- they already know who we are, they already have their databases, it's intentional money grab. But then again, so is PreTSA...

Duckdb can also handle SQLite files: https://duckdb.org/docs/stable/core_extensions/sqlite

A great presentation!

This is completely tangental, @bcantrill your voice reminds me of Chad the Bird -- https://www.youtube.com/@ChadTheBird (stellar observational comedy coming from a bird puppet).

Ha ha -- there are definitely voices that I know I have been implicitly inspired by over the years, but I can safely say that Chad the Bird is new to me! I'm enjoying listening to some of Chad the Bird's work now; my apologies in advance if it rubs off on me!

I meant it in a very positive way. Chad rocks! And so do you and the 0xide team -- what you guys are building is amazing to watch from the sidelines and I wish you and the team great success.

Thank you so much -- it's honestly very meaningful to hear!

But they still can track the cellular connection and do triangulation from that, no?

Basically, if you have any cell phone the government can track you. Buying a burner phone with cash (via strawman proxy) seems like the only way to temporarily obscure your location.

I imagine with the ubiquity of cameras in the commons and facial recognition and gait analysis they can knit that up even more.

Exactly! Electricity, hosting, and amortized cost of the GPUs would be the baseline costs.

It would be cool if they installed sleep pods like they have in Japan -- design it to be low maintenance and require a credit card to book with a refundable hold of a big enough deposit in case you defile it.