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Is this serious? There's very little to go on in the repo to establish how well thought through this is. I don't want to mark them down for poor language skil
by nmstoker 4y ago
Is this serious? There's very little to go on in the repo to establish how well thought through this is.
I don't want to mark them down for poor language skills but the style of the comments on the TabbyML GitHub profile suggests a rather casual approach, and when combined with a lack of any serious documentation or even basic details beyond a sketched architecture diagram, I kind of wonder... Is there any particular context others can point to that I may be overlooking?
- nmstoker 4y agoAnd to clarify, I'm not trying to be down on the authors of the repo, it's more a surprise this has got so high on HN without much to support it
- yieldcrv 4y agothe interest is in clients side LLMs and similar technologies this is enthusiast level territory that doesn't require professional window dressing at the moment if you’re the kind of person that needs that then you aren’t the target audience yet
- nmstoker 4y agoI don't need marketing and window dressing, I'm interested in evidence of it genuinely working but there's very little here. The idea of client side LLMs is kind of obviously a winner, who wouldn't want that and who hasn't thought of that, so this shouldn't shoot to the top on that basis. The repo looks close to thrown together vapourware. I'm keen not to undermine their efforts since we all aspire to create great things but the fact this has risen so high with so little supporting evidence says more about the current mood here.
- yieldcrv 4y agoits useful client side LLMs that people can potentially package as a commercial offering, and this is an ongoing gap in the market So all sorts of vaporware will fill that, and people will commend other people that seemingly take the initiative instead of just thinking about it
- yreg 4y agoI'm not surprised this got attention. As you say, everyone though of it, but that also means many many people are waiting for it. There is a huge group of people who are interested in using Copilot, but are not allowed (or don't want) to share their code with a 3rd party service. AFAIK there is Fauxpilot and now there is this second project. Of course it got attention based on the promise/idea alone, because many people are curious whether it could be useful for them.
- jauer 4y agoGetting it running was as easy as `git clone && docker run` and it actually worked, which I appreciate given how involved other ML projects tend to be.
- VadimPR 4y agoWere you able to use it in VS Code as an assistant? As far as I see, it just offers a stand-alone HTML page for coding in.
- traverseda 4y agoIt's open source, you'll have to write your own plugin for that.
- kateklink 4y agoif you're interested in VS Code plugin you may wanna try Refact.ai (which also has a self-hosted option)
- nacs 4y agoYes they have a VS Code extension even though it's not mentioned in their Github readme for some reason (just search for Tabby in VS code extensions). I tried it and it worked OK.