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willidiots | 6 months ago

The interface and code smacks of Claude. It's basically someone's AI pet project wrapping legitimate third-party tools.

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bboygravity|6 months ago

This "wrapping 3rd party tools" thing is a weird kind of critisizm to me. Like name 1 project that could not be described that way?

IshKebab|6 months ago

Blender, Godot, Audacity, Firefox, Git, Linux, ... I could name 100 projects that could not be described that way. Most couldn't. There are only a few projects that I can think of that are really just wrappers (even though they add a lot of value), e.g:

* Handbrake, wraps ffmpeg (it does more stuff but that's the main thing most people use it for)

* Ollama, wraps llama.cpp

willidiots|6 months ago

I agree that libraries are a thing, all problems in CS can be solved with a layer of indirection, etc. I also have no issue with AI-gen projects if they're good.

In this case, they posted a README full of nonsense diagrams, didn't fix the broken characters in their UX, and breezed over the complexity of the dependencies (ESP-CSI is very cool but requires specific hardware, with two ESP devices and external antennas). Feels sloppy.