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by adaaaam 1081 days ago
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