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Re:Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat by skrellm on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:25PM (#49676209)
No, you forgot about the dependencies (others said it to be 700Mb). And 2,900 LOC is still way too much for handling a remote API call, especially in a high level language such as Python where the biggest part of the task is delegated to separate modules.

I wrote an entire https client from ground up in 117 LOC (and in a low level language, not Python): https://gitlab.com/bztsrc/skrellm/-/blob/main/src/https.c

Again, this guy and me disagree on what "not a bloat" means.

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Re:Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat by Terretta on Sunday September 13, 2026 @11:41AM (#49685220)
> you forgot about the deps… (… 700Mb)

On the contrary, the readme for this project, `litelm`, is contrasting with the bloat project, `litellm`. This project subty deboats an L.

The bloat (or featuritis) project has the 700mb and 100k+ LOC, this de-bloat has 2k LOC and specifies its only two deps ones most people want as deps (although httpx should be swapped to its successor).

So this response is off base, the 700Mb isn't forgotten, it's been dropped.

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