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Re: Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework

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Is the axe drawing actually a hammer?

Looks like an axe to me. The cutting edge of the axe is embedded into the surface. And the handle attaches near the back of the head like an axe. Most hammers I've seen the handle attaches in the middle.

hahaha; this is what I was going for.

Re: Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework

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post #3

Great work! Kind of reminds me of ell ( https://github.com/MadcowD/ell ), which had this concept of treating prompts as small individual programs and you can pipe them together. Not sure if that particular tool is being maintained anymore, but your Axe tool caters to that audience of small short-lived composable AI agents.

Thanks for checking it out! And yes the tool is indeed catering to that crowed. It's a need I have and thought others could use it as well.

Re: Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework

#27

If I have time I want to try this today because it matches my LLM-based work style, especially when I am using local models: I have command line tools that help me generated large one-shot prompts that I just paste into an Ollama repl - then I check back in a while. It looks like Axe works the same way: fire off a request and later look at the results.

Exactly! I also made it to chain them together so each agent only gets what it needs to complete its one specific job.

Re: Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like an axe to me. The cutting edge of the axe is embedded into the surface. And the handle attaches near the back of the head like an axe. Most hammers I've seen the handle attaches in the middle.

hahaha; this is what I was going for.

Just FYI, your handle is on backwards.
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