y42
Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
"After losing a bunch of customers to Codex"
Hot take: Right now it's quite simple to loose customers, like customer churn from A to B or back. That's the weakest spot, isn't it? No matter how complex the products grown and how deep they are integrated into our systems, common users can easily switch. Even heavy users, I argue. Just tell Codex to rewrite the existing Claude-instructions into their own. Even that may not be necessary, if you organized your work "agent agnostic".
And I dont see how that could change, that's why they try to offer tools that are even more integrated into our lives. Like "dots". But this also narrows down the use cases and client base, I argue.
>There are others — MLX-native runtimes, llama.cpp directly — but Ollama and LM Studio cover 95% of people reading this.
Sure, but... MLX native runtime have a lot of advantages right? and they are not necessarily more complicated like eg ollama. It's worth to mention them, too.
Coming to the next missing part: use cases.
Running it locally competes with dozens of freely available chat bots. And for most simple parts, seriously, you don't need that sophisticated payed AI service. But then: how do local model's perform exactly here: let's start with coding, image generation and more? Like stuff that I probably really want to run locally.
I tried many others, but mostly all others are not stable enough or have an even worse UI/UX... so I wonder... is this different?
I think we strongly need something like that (shameless plug, I tried to build something around bitNet for the same reason: https://github.com/nickyreinert/bitNetRTR).
But at the end, all aproaches I saw, however genius they are: the actual results are always a mess. It's a better chat buddy, nothing else. It's e.g. far away from an decent coding assistants. I fine tuned Gemma with domain specific knowledge. Running it on a 16GB VRM GForce. Even then it's okai'sh but far way from a mind blowing experience. I ran some of the promised open source model on my 36GB MBPro M3, in Pi, Hermes, Continue. Can't compare the results to what Claude or Codex are offering.
You need at least something that's far away from consumer hardware, like those 7k'ish GForce machines with 96GB VRAM to get an idea of a good competitive model.
But... please, proof me wrong! =)
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