What I Learned Building a Lightweight Local AI Agent

When I wrote the first post about openLight in March, the project was a 1.0 commit, a Raspberry Pi, and a Telegram bot. I had a Pi running tailscale, a small Matrix homeserver, and I was tired of ssh [email protected] && systemctl status … from a phone keyboard. So I wrote a Go binary that talked to a Telegram bot, kept state in SQLite, and could fall back to a local Ollama model when the rule-based router didn't recognize the request. Two months later the binary is still ~25 MB, stil