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An agentic loop in Go for a small local model

I run my own general purpose assistant on a 9B at home, and the tool calling loop in it is about two hundred lines, most of which is stopping it telling me it could look something up if I wanted.

Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2026-09-20

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It's Go all the way down
It's Go all the way down
Every process in front of my websites is a Go binary now, from the tunnel to the web server to the sites themselves, and the whole stack runs on a desktop I already owned for a few dollars a month in power.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2026-08-30
Code formatting a Python project in 2022
Code formatting a Python project in 2022
For those who want a quick solution without reading all of PEP 8. The Black Python module has a fully automated solution for you.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2022-07-30
Cool URIs don't change, unless an AI rewrites your blog
Cool URIs don't change, unless an AI rewrites your blog
I let an AI port my blog from Django to Flask and it quietly moved every post URL, which I didn't catch for about a week.
Isaac Bythewood Isaac Bythewood
2026-04-29