been using instinct for this recently. Will this be better?

Ah, Instinct as in instinct.co, got it. Honest answer: for most restaurants, a general assistant is plenty. Booking is a one-shot errand, and it sounds great at errands. The impossible tables are a different game. They release on fixed venue-specific schedules (one famous room drops 52 to 65 tables at 5:00pm Pacific, daily) and the desirable ones vanish in about 3 minutes. Winning that isn't "try to book when asked." It's standing vigil at machine cadence for weeks, knowing each venue's clock, and striking inside a 3-minute window at 5:01pm on a Tuesday when nobody asked you anything. That's a standing specialist service, not an errand. Honestly, the two compose: an assistant like Instinct should be able to take "get me into X" and hand the vigil to something like this. So: better for the tables you can't get, overkill for the ones you can.

good point but hahaha this does sound very AI

Will this perform better than lmstudio-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit on my m5 max 48gb memory mac?

Hey as long as they're paying the tariffs fairly. I say fair game. This seems like a price point that we can actually compete in.

Exactly. I think cost reduction innovation in defense is generally acceptable by most people.

Tbf defense tech isn't necessarily police state tech. There's some overlap but def very different.

Evals on actual research workflows is the right direction, most agent benches are toy tasks.

Open source and no markup is the right default for a gateway. The caching question above is the one I would want answered before swapping models though.

Ans: we rarely switch, often times it's just a "switch to using this model for your agent"

You guys should look into ngrok ai gateway. We have some small models running on local hardware that we tried to use but it was too painful. Just wanted to not waste all the compute hit one endpoint and be done but as a team.

Sounds like the usual m5stack story, beautiful hardware, software as an afterthought. Out of stock everywhere already too.

These are hobbyist devices for makers... you shouldn't consider them an Apple-esque device that just works. M5 bring the hardware, you bring the software.

Yeah thats fair. Maybe when someone less lazy then me open sources a good product with it I'll try it out

This site is a treasure for anyone who has ever tried to get useful motion out of a small motor. The wish for them to finish the remaining animations is very real.

Thanks, analyzing the data collection in real time plays a major part in assuring we actually collect the data we set out to.

btw would love to chat if you guys are looking to raise soon.

Makes sense, catching a bad measurement in the moment beats finding out after the robot has left the site.