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Comment by Aurornis | Hacker News Reader

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 It’s recommending outdated models like Qwen2.5 series and missing good new models.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.

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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/2cefaea1cc5d2de...

I think your hunch is very much spot on. It doesn’t look trustworthy at all.

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.

And it seems to work! First page on HN

/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.)

Hilariously the commit says "delete marketingmd ai slop".

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.

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 :/

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

Hosting to GitHub Pages is free and easy for a project that is already on GitHub.

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