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Basic Semantic Routing with LiteLLM Proxy

People: David Idea: Testing semantic routing as a way to automatically send LLM requests to different models based on what the user is asking—part of a bigger vision for smart edge-to-hub-to-cloud routing on our Maui cluster. Details: * Our LiteLLM proxy already bundles multiple machines into one API endpoint, so

Automous terminal agent accessible through Slack

People: David Idea: Testing KIRA, Krafton's open-source project that lets you run a full Claude Code instance through Slack, on our local PMF hardware. Details: * Nicole mentioned wanting more Slack bot and automation options for the team * Found Krafton's KIRA project on GitHub which does exactly

CrewAI plus open-source LLMs for marketing strategy

People: Me Idea: Tested whether local/open-source models can handle real marketing strategy work using CrewAI as the orchestration layer. Details: * Wanted to see how open source tools do for automating some tasks in marketing * Used gpt-oss-120b as the backbone model * Ran everything through CrewAI for agent orchestration * Got Joe&

Qwen3-32B on AMD's 7900XTX

People: Me Idea: I wanted to see how well the Qwen3-32B model runs on an AMD 7900XTX using different quantization formats and inference backends—spoiler: AWQ is not the move on this generation of consumer AMD card. Details: * Tested on a host system with Ubuntu 24.04 with ROCm 7.

Testing Qwen3-Omni Audio Inputs

People David Idea Part of our work in the Kumubot cluster involves being able to work on both text as well as audio recordings - the idea was the figure out the capabilities of Qwen3-Omni on our Blackwell hardware Details * Blackwell software support (at least for the RTX 6000 Pro)

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