I want to like Ollama, but I wish it didn't obfuscate the actual directives (full prompt) that it sends to the underlying model. Ollama uses a custom templatizing script in its Modelfiles to translate user input into the format that a specific model expects ([INST], etc), but it can be difficult to tell if it's working as expected because it won't show up in the logs at all.

Other than that it's a great project - very easy to get started and has a solid API implementation. I've got it running on both a Win 10 + WSL2 docker and on a Mac M1.

Yeah, I was surprised Ollama was not mentioned as it’s by far the easiest to get started with. If it only had real grammar support, I’d never have to use another library again (it has a JSON mode that generally works, however).

Ollama is great. I discovered it today while looking for a way to serve LLMs locally for my terminal command generator tool (cmdh: https://github.com/pgibler/cmdh) and was able to get it up and running and implement support for it very easily.

Huh, I've fought with a few of these things on my laptop, no nvidia GPU, limited ram, etc.

This actually worked as advertised.