[josalhor]

No, what I am saying simply does not exist yet.

I am saying I want my OS to expose APIs like it does for the disk or the network for AI. And I want my apps to be able to use those APIs.

I want my backend LLMs to be able to change on a whim. Imagine an Android app consuming from these LLMs. Maybe I am outside and it is making queries to Gemini. And maybe I get home and now it makes queries to my local llm, almost like connecting to local Wifi.

What I am saying does not exist on many levels:

- Agreed upon APIs for this don't think exist (in text maybe, but not in image/sound/video).

- OSs do not expose this (I am not talking manually configured user space stuff here).

- I see a world where your Network provider bundles "calls + data plan + AI tokens". But not only are the offerings for these not standardized, in order to even reach that point we would need to standardize the offerings. How do you compare intelligence among models? How do you compare cost?

- The apps need to start adopting this model

The tech is here, the ecosystem is not.

[bglusman]

Well… it doesn’t exist FROM APPLE or MICROSOFT or GOOGLE at their shipped OS Level, but… fundamentally this isn’t a “true OS” level feature you’re asking for, it’s something you think the OS products should bake in, and you might be right! But I think the parents post is suggesting YOU CAN BUILD a prototype of what you want, how it should work, on Linux…

I have a project somewhat close to this I’ve put on pause the last month or so, partly because I’m not sure how useful it is or where to take next, but I may incorporate Wayfinder into it as a next step to improve its capabilities, as part of what it is a model gateway/router that this feels like could make more powerful/flexible in its decision making. I can’t decide if what I’m building is mostly a model recipe cookbook/platform, or a debugging tool, or both or something else at the moment, but, it can do most of that… maybe it’s part of what you want, if you figure that out better? feedback welcome! https://wardwright.dev/ https://github.com/bglusman/wardwright

[josalhor]

> Well… it doesn’t exist FROM APPLE or MICROSOFT or GOOGLE at their shipped OS

What I am saying does not exist period. What I am saying is that there isn't a proper abstraction that helps the ecosystem build upon it.

> But I think the parents post is suggesting YOU CAN BUILD a prototype of what you want, how it should work, on Linux

I mean, yes. But me saying "this does not exist" and someone saying "but you can build it" does not take away from the fact that... Yeah, it doesn't exit :).

And also, no, I cannot build it, at least not alone. Because I want apps to eventually build upon my abstractions. This would require a good set of millions, of which the technical development would be a small part. The coordination, contracts, API definitions, even marketing, etc would be the majority.

I am saying something that Google, Telefonica, Microsoft etc could do.

[try-working]

Exactly. That's why I built the role-model protocol, the pi-role-model extension so that Pi can tell the router where its requests should go, and the reference router implementation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706181

[idiotsecant]

Why do we need API endpoints? We have the best API there is - the CLI

[josalhor]

Querying a CLI is also querying an API. I never said API endpoint. An API can be a Java Interface, a CLI, an endpoint etc.