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by diimdeep 560 days ago
Very annoying marketing and pretending to be anything other than just wrapper around llama.cpp.
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Can you ollama haters stop with this bullshit?

Does llama.cpp do dynamic model loading and unloading? Will it fetch a model you request but isn't downloaded? Does it provide SDKs? Does it have startup services it provides? There's space for things that wrap llama.cpp and solve many of its pain points. You can find piles of reports of people struggling to build and compile llama.cpp for some reason or another who then clicked an Ollama installer and it worked right away.

It's also a free OSS project giving all this away, why are you being an ass and discouraging them?

Sure llama.cpp does not do all of that, except that it lets you curl model from public and free to use endpoints, it does that. But SDK? - fuck that. Load, unload and startup services - who is even need that ? All this value is so minuscule compared to core functionality provided by ggml/llamacpp.

But this submitted link is not even about all of that, it is about what really llama.cpp does not do - it does not write more lines of marketing material than lines of code, which is that marketing material is about, lines of code that really just wrap 10x more lines of code down the line, and all of that by not making it clear as day.

It's not even worth countering all these lies you're telling. Enjoy your self inflicted irrational misery.
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