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Ha, I was about to release something similar to this as my first ever open-source project. Beaten by a day. And, frankly, this is better than mine.

Congrats to npiv.

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Even if your tool is just written in a different language you'll probably have an audience. Some people will want to hack on your code, maybe they don't know python. Maybe they just don't like python for whatever reason.

Get it shipped lol. Highest rated comment and you're practically the only person not linking your own!

Same thing happened to me two weeks ago... Released clevercli[0] only to find out aichat[1] had more features and written in Rust.

[0] https://github.com/clevercli/clevercli

[1] https://github.com/sigoden/aichat/

Amazing! Thank you. The AI Chat is super interesting.

Having that on even just a super old computer would be revolutionary for the old computer. Completely new life.

Something old that was obsolete, if it can have a terminal connected to an LLM, and hopefully internet access too, then it becomes a super powerful interface that doesn’t even require images.

If I was going to have a pet AI who’s brain was largely in the cloud, Id put the ghost in an old machine =]

Does aichat also connect to GPT-4?

> written in Rust

Thank you, I'm glad to have a more casually hackable implementation in TypeScript. It definitely helps that you project is not written in Rust!

At this point a good fraction of every half decent engineer is trying to do something around LLMs. Not sure if that’s the best use of the effort when the entire field is in a state of such unstable equilibrium.

Learning by doing is second only to learning by teaching, so my best guess is that it's probably extremely valuable.

Where’s the harm in releasing it anyway? You’ve done the work, put it out there!

Multiple implementations are always appreciated, different languages etc. :)

I think it's still worth releasing even if it's not as good as someone else's. Worst-case scenario, you're growing and learning and putting something out there that demonstrates you're developing interesting software. And who knows, maybe you'll find some other contributors, or maybe this will spark some novel ideas in someone else. You never know the power of your contributions.

Don't gatekeep yourself!

It’s not always about being the first, but being the best and having enough steam to stick around. Lots of abandonware too.

Launch your take anyways

Release it anyhow!

Yup, release it anyhow. There’s plenty of storage space on the internet.

Haha yeah, I made something similar for my own use. I bet thousands of people saw the ChatGPT interface and instinctively wanted to pipe stuff / save it easily without fussing with manual copy and paste. It's still a fun project and quite rewarding to see the text stream appear in real time in your shell.

Yeah still release it for sure. I don’t line python and that’s enough for me to check out a different language.

And 1k github stars. Is the creator famous?

Do it anyway.

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