Automated License plate readers are a half century old at this point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number-plate_recogni...

why wouldn't codex or claude just reach for whatever FOSS https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr

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> Assuming they have access to terabytes of regional video surveillance but don't have their own compute besides what the LLM will buy for them

Amazing how you can move the goalposts to make things impossible, isn't it? Where in the world did "without compute" come from? Are they not even allowed a decent desktop computer?