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adaaaam··on Chatgpt.js: An open-source, powerful client-side JavaScript library for ChatGPT
OpenAI's developers knows of its existence already and follow many apps that use its code (for example, they copied the full-window functionality from the award-winning https://chatgptwidescreen.com powered by chatgpt.js)
adaaaam··on Chatgpt.js: An open-source, powerful client-side JavaScript library for ChatGPT
I'm an author so I can address some of your concerns

> Why would I use this instead of some minimal implementation of the official OpenAI packages?

If you're looking to use API, you wouldn't (this is client-side not server-side library)

> Looking at the chatgpt.js file in the repo, a great deal of the code revolves around manipulating UI elements.

Yes that's what this library is for

> What does any of this have to do with interacting with an API

Nothing... (who said it interacts with API?)

> why would I use your UI, baked into this script, outside of something I control myself?

The same reason authors of award-winning apps that use chatgpt.js do... to write less code (literally anyone uses libraries). Why do you need to control a library's code?

> I'm not sold on this; seems like a wrapper around something that is much simpler in practice.

It doesn't wrap anything it's original functions...

> "Who has time for docs?" Perhaps you could... I dunno, use an AI or something to generate [docs] for you?

A human wrote them already @ https://github.com/kudoai/chatgpt.js/blob/main/docs/userguid... the quote refers to users not me

adaaaam··on Chatgpt.js: An open-source, powerful client-side JavaScript library for ChatGPT
What is the 'it' you refer to?
adaaaam··on Chatgpt.js: An open-source, powerful client-side JavaScript library for ChatGPT
I am one of the authors, there is no API used...
adaaaam··on Chatgpt.js: An open-source, powerful client-side JavaScript library for ChatGPT
How come?
adaaaam··on Chatgpt.js: An open-source, powerful client-side JavaScript library for ChatGPT
> What a wild thread. Author claims to be in they mid 30s, then says they wrote JS since the 90s (back when they were what, less than 10 years old?)

I am the author. You are correct I wrote JS since the 90s, however your math is incorrect as I was 12 in '96 (but less than 10 when using my first language, AppleSoft BASIC)

> uses LinkedIn connections with lawyers to make a point

And the point you are making is..?