The Tree Grows a New Ring: Recomposing a Civic AI in Hours
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On recomposing a multi-repo civic AI system between two rounds of a municipal election
30 posts tagged with "civitech"
Citizen technologies and open source for the public good
View All TagsThe Day the Lighthouse Dimmed: Six Agents, One Commit, and a Fourth Methodology
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How closing a civic tool for election day became the session that birthed two agents and elevated simplicity to a principle
Le Coeur Rose: When Impartiality Met the Arena
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Written the night before the first round of the municipal elections of Audierne-Esquibien
The Order of Things: When Neutrality Needs a Shuffle
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How a WhatsApp message revealed a systemic bias we didn't intend — and why open source made the fix possible in hours
What the Comments Forgot: On Reflections, Roots, and Seven Ten-Thousandths of a Euro
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A day of root growth — the kind you can't see from outside the tree
O Capistaine! My Capistaine! — A School for AI Agents
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Or: how three years of infrastructure and three months of civic AI led us to the Dead Poets Society — and why the yawps are about to begin
The Red Thread: The Journey That Led to This Moment
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How infrastructure built for something else found its purpose in a small commune's elections
Ici, l'IA n'est pas une boite noire — c'est notre phare
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A manifesto for civic AI, written five days before the municipal elections of Audierne-Esquibien
The Well of Kvasir: When the RAG Pipeline Learned to Listen
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How a single email from a candidate revealed four distinct failures in four distinct layers — and why Separation of Concerns was the only way to fix them
Clean the Windshield: Enhancing RAG Without Upgrading the Engine
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Three near-zero-cost interventions that improved our civic RAG pipeline more than any model change could