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dirtywork Lets Local Models Do the Grunt Work

dirtywork.run ↗ · Developer Corner · score 84.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A command-line tool that delegates coding tasks to free local language models in isolated Git worktrees while a frontier model plans and reviews.

Why it surfaced

dirtywork gives the local worker a bounded sequence: explore the repository, edit files, run tests, and produce a JSONL transcript without auto-committing. Its division of labor is unusually clear—frontier models spend judgment, local models spend electricity—and the v0.2 beta is candid about its narrow tested setup.

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