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river_otter

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About river_otter

MLE at Mozilla.ai

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48997574

    Hey, this model is not a joke! Exciting, we already got a usable PR of work out of it. https://github.com/mozilla-ai/otari/pull/348

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    Comment #48997539

    K4 Q_M https://github.com/njbrake/laguna-otari-bridge

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    Comment #48997410

    I am about 1 hour into using it with pi.dev. Do you have thinking on high? It is doing good but at one point i had to stop it and say 'you're overthinking this' haha

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    Comment #48997268

    I love this. Is it possible to give a feel of how this stacks up to the good old Opus 4.5 in coding quality? For me that was the turning point where agentic coding in Claude Code e…

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    Show HN: Train Claude Code's replacement (ds4 and pi and aoe)

    Remember how Meta monitored employee activity closely for a few months, and then had a bunch of layoffs related to AI efficiency? (oh right that was like 3 days ago). What if you c…

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    Show HN: TUI Settlers of Catan built with Llamafile and Bonsai PrismML Models

    Hey all, Nathan here from mozilla.ai. I run a lot of agents at once with the agent-of-empires tool, and thought it would be fun if I could also play my favorite board game and have…

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    Comment #47549229

    The emails go through quickbooks/accounting software, Clawbolt doesn't have any direct email client. Use of tools is on a gradual permission basis like Claude code, and Clawbolt do…

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    Comment #47548126

    Very cool! Quickbooks is an interesting area because imo it's so important to be super super careful with how that interaction model works. Narrowing on a very specific vertical li…

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    Comment #47545486

    Nathan here, MLE at Mozilla.ai. We wrote this because the AI productivity conversation has been almost entirely about desk workers, and we think that's a miss. My buddy runs a gene…

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    Comment #47530628

    Glad to hear it! oooh interesting, I've seen worktrunk but haven't explored it too deeply yet. The sounds are sort of an easter egg: you can enable/disable them from the settings p…

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    Show HN: Version 1.0 of agent-of-empires CLI agent orchestration tool

    Nathan here, I'm a ML engineer at mozilla.ai So stoked to mark the agent-of-empires (aoe) tool as version 1.0. We've had 30 different direct contributors to the codebase as well as…

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    Comment #47502528

    github.com/mozilla-ai/any-llm :)

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    Comment #47264222

    It's the wonderful part about OSS and 'mission-driven' projects. If the mission is not to make money, then a project is free to reject addons/etc that might be lucrative but not ad…

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    Show HN: Porchsongs.ai; Rewrite chordcharts/lyrics with AI to make them personal

    I posted porchsongs here about a month ago as a self-hosted Docker project. A few people looked at it, but I get that spinning up docker containers and configuring stuff is sort of…

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    Show HN: Mozilla.ai introduces Clawbolt, an AI Assistant for the trades

    Hey everyone, Nathan here: I'm an MLE at Mozilla.ai. I can't tell you how many things around my house I've been saying "I would really like to have somebody take a look at that". B…

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    Show HN: Porchsongs: AI to create and catalogue personalized songs

    Hi, Nathan here, I’m an MLE at Mozilla.ai, and also a guitar player. I have a small front porch at my house and I love to sit out there in the summer and play songs on my guitar. T…

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    Comment #46987420

    Done https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850881 :)

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    Comment #46987293

    I did that a few weeks ago ;) https://github.com/njbrake/agent-of-empires (This was the HN Post about it -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850881 )

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    Comment #46856888

    Great idea and name the danger here which I'll be interested to track is how do you keep this "nano"? Since it's built for you, you'll continue adding features i assume which over …

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    Comment #46850928

    It makes me chuckle every time the state changes lol. But by making it configurable hopefully it can actually be a useful feature for people (fingers crossed)

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    Comment #46850882

    It’s Sunday night/Monday morning, I just got back from a great day at FOSDEM 2026, and since I’m on the east coast time schedule, might as well tackle some outstanding issues on ag…

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    Comment #46706280

    Excited to finally be able to give this a try today. I'm documenting my experience using aoe + OpenCode + LM Studio + GLM-4.7 Flash + Mac Mini M4Pro 64GB Mem on this thread if anyo…