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This has to be at least the fifth LLMpeg I've seen posted to hacker news in the past few months. This whole repo is a single 300 LoC Python file over half of w
by Ameo 1y ago
This has to be at least the fifth LLMpeg I've seen posted to hacker news in the past few months.
This whole repo is a single 300 LoC Python file over half of which is the system prompt and comments. It's not even a fine-tuned model or something, it's literally just a wrapper around llama-cpp with a very basic prompt tacked on.
I'm sure it's potentially useful and maybe even works, but I'm really sick of seeing these extremely low-effort projects posted and upvoted over and over.
- do_not_redeem 1y agoIt was vibe coded too, the doc comments and pokemon try-catch are dead giveaways. It's a slop wrapper around a slop generator to farm github stars. Welcome to the future.
- xhrpost 1y ago> pokemon try-catch I've seen LLM's do this in other languages as well but didn't realize there was a term for it. Wrapping entire function bodies in try/catch, at the very least please just wrap the caller so you don't have to indent the entire body for no reason. Not to mention a lot of commands inside can't even throw.
- larodi 1y agoI bet it is very often that people upvote based on the title and perhaps comments, not the actual content or its utility. Besides, this karma business can really get one hooked as a sucker for the high grade…
- N_Lens 1y agoAt this rate one could probably automate the low effort project -> HN post pipeline
- wolletd 1y agoUsing yet another LLM to generate the project code!
- jagged-chisel 1y agoHmm … {thinking face emoji} {money-mouth face emoji}
- dylan604 1y ago{Eye roll emoji} How many Show HN have we seen of low effort genAI image tools that are less capable and less in every way than the umpteengillion previous versions of a genAI tool? People use the Show HN like it's their parent's refrigerator to hang their preschool art looking for validation or something. If anyone was looking to hire someone in AI, would you see one of these subpar projects from a Show HN and think that's someone you would be interested in working with?
- Sesse__ 1y agoAt some point, one would imagine just making a less confusing FFmpeg CLI would be a better use of everyone's time. (I've sort-of understood it now, but the learning curve is pretty steep.)
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- Liquix 1y agothat's akin to making a "less confusing git" - the reason ffmpeg/git are so widely used is largely due to how powerful and fine-tunable they are. the learning curve is an unfortunate but necessary side effect
- IshKebab 1y agoYou could make both git and ffmpeg much less confusing without sacrificing their power and tunability.
- BoredPositron 1y agoYou could also write a wrapper for non technical users without a rewrite or comprising core functionality.
- IshKebab 1y agoIn my experience that never helps because the wrapper is never comprehensive or well documented enough that you can completely avoid dipping below it and as soon as that happens it's worse because you have to learn the original thing anyway plus some poorly documented wrapper.
- Sesse__ 1y agoCase in point, git is already much less confusing than it was at 1.0 and nobody complains it has gotten less powerful. (“Less confusing” does not mean “not confusing”, of course.)
- robertpohl 1y agoNo one is stopping you from creating a Nobel Prize winning ffmpeg wrapper yourself to show how its done ;)
- 0points 1y ago> This whole repo is a single 300 LoC Python file over half of which is the system prompt and comments. You accurately described many "AI apps" of this era.
- singpolyma3 1y agoThere are whole startups that are just a system prompt and a thousand lines of UI these days...
- rib3ye 1y agoLook at it a validation of user demand.
- olyjohn 1y agoYou can just use ChatGPT, etc already to generate the ffmpeg code. I just did this a few nights ago. There's no wrapper or any need to tune anything as far as I can tell.