Re:Show HN: Tabby – A Self-Hosted GitHub Copilot
by yieldcrv on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:34PM
(#35473289)
its useful client side LLMs that people can potentially package as a commercial offering, and this is an ongoing gap in the market
So all sorts of vaporware will fill that, and people will commend other people that seemingly take the initiative instead of just thinking about it
Re:Show HN: Tabby – A Self-Hosted GitHub Copilot
by yreg on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:55AM
(#35479650)
I'm not surprised this got attention. As you say, everyone though of it, but that also means many many people are waiting for it.
There is a huge group of people who are interested in using Copilot, but are not allowed (or don't want) to share their code with a 3rd party service.
AFAIK there is Fauxpilot and now there is this second project. Of course it got attention based on the promise/idea alone, because many people are curious whether it could be useful for them.
The idea of client side LLMs is kind of obviously a winner, who wouldn't want that and who hasn't thought of that, so this shouldn't shoot to the top on that basis.
The repo looks close to thrown together vapourware. I'm keen not to undermine their efforts since we all aspire to create great things but the fact this has risen so high with so little supporting evidence says more about the current mood here.