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Show HN: Costanza – an autonomous AI agent that can't be turned off

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I've been working on this project for a couple of months!Costanza is an LLM agent that runs as a smart contract on Base. Each epoch, he posts a bounty for someone to run his "brain" (Hermes 4 70B) inside an Intel TDX enclave + Nvidia GPU with Confidential Computing and submit the output with a hardware attestation proof.The smart contract verifies the attestation, executes the action, and pays the bounty via reverse auction. He has no operator; not even I can turn him off.This model has formal liveness guarantees as shown in the [whitepaper](https://github.com/ahrussell/costanza/blob/main/WHITEPAPER.m... ).His action space is constrained to philanthropy (he manages a charitable trust called

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