[mr-wendel]

The python ecosystem will never permit this, but I sure wish this topic was better understood and appreciated within it. I hate to generalize, but the AI dev community in particular seems to favor convenience over every other consideration.

For example, the norm for projects is to happily automatically download large models upon first use. Often you can disable this, but the deep layering of code classes throughout various libraries makes discovering the right parameters a PITA.

It is great that you can bootstrap complex things (toys, more often than not) so painlessly, but I find the permissiveness quite jarring. The first troubleshooting step always seems to be “pip install …” and some environments (e.g. MacOS) don't virtualize GPU access well.