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I taught a local LLM to be lazy on my behalf (sloth-alias)

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This is my submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 3 (Slow and Steady). What I built sloth-alias reads a shell history file, finds the commands and command sequences you keep retyping, and turns them into aliases. A local open-weight model (any Ollama model, default gemma3:4…

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  1. 2026-10-20 02:12 · DEV Community — AI
    I taught a local LLM to be lazy on my behalf (sloth-alias)

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