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And 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
by nmstoker 4y ago
And 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.