Ototo

Show HN: Ototo: A tool to offload code exploration to a smaller model

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Hey all - I made a thing with my clanker Kevin: Ototo (https://ototo.dev/) - yes this is clanker driven dev. The idea is to offload code exploration and other token'y heavy tasks to a smaller model to do the work and chuck the result back. This helps in a couple of ways (1) it saves tokens if you can offload to a cheaper or free local model (2) it can keep the main context clearer as it removes all the sherlocking thinking/exploration. It also saves more tokens than using anthropics own exploration agent.I had originally played around with a graph based approach but found this to work better. Currently, I have this running with Qwen 3.8 27B on my framework (I had Kevin build me a custom infe

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Website: ototo.dev