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by cyanydeez 59 days ago
Can't be just a SaaSpocolypse. LLMs with the right harness could obliterate much of the TODO+ apps with a general assistant.

But it's more likely it's just walled garden + security theatre that'll keep them from allowing outside apps.

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Wouldn't trust AI to run TODO, especially weak models. They can hallucinate tasks, forget to remind etc.
LLMs are stateless. But given an actual database of task-shaped items and some work, I could see the potential.

With a canonical source of truth, and set input/output expectations, the potential blast radius is quite small.

And the end results is.....? What? A todo app that takes 16GB of RAM?
Nothing that Mac and Windows users aren't already used to.
It’s tempting to be flippant about MacOS/windows but in all seriousness, the resources required for an LLM to do the job of a typical lighter weight app/software is a serious consideration. No amount of bloat matches what an LLM needs.
> No amount of bloat matches what an LLM needs.

I don't think that's necessarily true. For instance, LinkedIn uses more memory than Gemma E2B inference does.