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I Built an Open-Weight Tarot Reader — Then Found My Backup Model Was Doing the Work

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This is my submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge — Week 2: Side Hustle . The application worked. The readings sounded convincing. And the wrong model was doing most of the work. That was the uncomfortable discovery I made while building Pocket Oracle , an open-weight AI-powered…

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  1. 2026-10-17 23:28 · DEV Community — AI
    I Built an Open-Weight Tarot Reader — Then Found My Backup Model Was Doing the Work

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