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1. The results of this tool are not good. It’s recommending outdated models like Qwen2.5 series and missing good new models. 2. This could have been a single w

1. The results of this tool are not good. It’s recommending outdated models like Qwen2.5 series and missing good new models. 2. This could have been a single web page that runs in your browser and lets you enter hardware specs, like all of the other tools like this. It is not a good idea to install and run unknown projects like this on your computer in this age. 3. The project is very obviously vibecoded, down to the README 4. Every comment from this account appears to be AI generated too. I would recommend not installing and running this on your computer. There is no advantage over other tools and everything about the account and project looks like low effort AI generated content.

hazelnut 6mo ago
There is apparently a marketing.md file that was deleted 25min ago with the strategy to post on HN. https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm/commit/2cefaea1cc5d2dee194a4614728f0738743d180e https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm/commit/2cefaea1cc5d2de... I think your hunch is very much spot on. It doesn’t look trustworthy at all.
- Aurornis 6mo ago
  That’s amazing. Everyone has noticed all of the AI slop projects being posted to Show HN and r/localllama but this is the first time I’m seeing the AI text that is telling people to do this. I was naive enough to think these people had the idea to post the project on their own, but even the idea to post it is coming from the LLMs. Amazing. EDIT: r/selfhosted is in there too. This explains why that subreddit is having such a problem with AI slop project spam.
  - ekianjo 6mo ago
    And it seems to work! First page on HN
  - bityard 6mo ago
    /r/selfhosted in particular has gone from a fun community of computing enthusiasts and developers having fun with their software and data on their own terms, to a literal self-promotion wasteland of AI-generated slop. (And I say this as someone who is not actually against the _intelligent_ use of LLMs for software development.)
- jwxz 6mo ago
  Hilariously the commit says "delete marketingmd ai slop".
- bityard 6mo ago
  Man. Every time I see a Reddit or HN post starting with "I got tired of..." I already know that it's going to be self-promoted AI slop.
worldsavior 6mo ago
Hosting a website costs money and headache. Pretty cheap but still, it's easier to just do a CLI.
- Aurornis 6mo ago
  Hosting to GitHub Pages is free and easy for a project that is already on GitHub.
aggregator-ios 6mo ago
And the worst part is that it gets upvoted to the front page, while other hard work projects and articles don't. There's tons of vote scam sites where you can purchase mass upvotes on here as well as other platforms. There's no real repercussions if caught doing that :/

hazelnut 6mo ago

There is apparently a marketing.md file that was deleted 25min ago with the strategy to post on HN. https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm/commit/2cefaea1cc5d2dee194a4614728f0738743d180e https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm/commit/2cefaea1cc5d2de... I think your hunch is very much spot on. It doesn’t look trustworthy at all.

Aurornis 6mo ago
That’s amazing. Everyone has noticed all of the AI slop projects being posted to Show HN and r/localllama but this is the first time I’m seeing the AI text that is telling people to do this. I was naive enough to think these people had the idea to post the project on their own, but even the idea to post it is coming from the LLMs. Amazing. EDIT: r/selfhosted is in there too. This explains why that subreddit is having such a problem with AI slop project spam.
- ekianjo 6mo ago
  And it seems to work! First page on HN
- bityard 6mo ago
  /r/selfhosted in particular has gone from a fun community of computing enthusiasts and developers having fun with their software and data on their own terms, to a literal self-promotion wasteland of AI-generated slop. (And I say this as someone who is not actually against the _intelligent_ use of LLMs for software development.)
jwxz 6mo ago
Hilariously the commit says "delete marketingmd ai slop".
bityard 6mo ago
Man. Every time I see a Reddit or HN post starting with "I got tired of..." I already know that it's going to be self-promoted AI slop.

worldsavior 6mo ago

Hosting a website costs money and headache. Pretty cheap but still, it's easier to just do a CLI.

Aurornis 6mo ago
Hosting to GitHub Pages is free and easy for a project that is already on GitHub.

aggregator-ios 6mo ago

And the worst part is that it gets upvoted to the front page, while other hard work projects and articles don't. There's tons of vote scam sites where you can purchase mass upvotes on here as well as other platforms. There's no real repercussions if caught doing that :/