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Re: Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base

#41

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But local-first !== defaults to local inference, right?

I'm not sure I understand the question. Regardless of what provider you choose - be it cloud based or local - you have to provide setup information such as host, authentication, etc. So it "defaults" to nothing; you have to select something.

Maybe this will be a clearer question: What does "local-first" mean in the title that you typed in for this HN submission?

Re: Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base

#43
post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I understand the question. Regardless of what provider you choose - be it cloud based or local - you have to provide setup information such as host, authentication, etc. So it "defaults" to nothing; you have to select something.

Maybe this will be a clearer question: What does "local-first" mean in the title that you typed in for this HN submission?

Local first means running Atomic with local models is not an afterthought. It’s a first class citizen that works just as seamlessly as running with a cloud provider - assuming you’ve done the work to provision the local models and their connections yourself.

Re: Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base

#44

The app Atomic.app com.atomic.app (signer: Developer ID Application: Foldingspace Labs LLC (D3SX98L77N)) will not run without access to fonts.googleapis.com:53, fonts.gstatic.com:53, api.fontshare.com:53.

nice username :)

fair point, the app makes requests to load fonts. we'll fix that next release.

Re: Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base

#45
post #8

Reviewed: https://zby.github.io/commonplace/agent-memory-systems/revie... It is the second llm wiki on frontpage today! I wish the scene was more collaborative - instead of everyone writing their own. But I guess this is the llm curse - too easy to start. I am afraid it will all go in the LangChain direction with VC funding designs that are not yet ready solidifying choices that would normally be superseded.

This is .. honestly a great synopsis of Atomic and its design tradeoffs. Thanks! Giving commonplace a look.

Thanks!

The reviews are done automatically - here are the instructions: https://github.com/zby/commonplace/blob/main/kb/agent-memory...

I am open to changing these instructions - it cannot be about just making your system look better - but I'll try to incorporate genuine ideas how to improve these reviews.

Re: Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base

#46

Awesome! How did you find using Tauri? Were there any particular pain points?

Tauri is great! this is my first Rust-based project and it took some real getting used to. But i love that Tauri does not ship with an entire chromium browser, and i love its focus on security.

Re: Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base

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post #20

> Not x — but y. Am I the only one who feels a bit betrayed after reading LLM text? I am not even willing to try out the app after I notice… which is a shame. At least polishing the obvious parts would help a lot and is not that much work.

This was good feedback - Website has been updated!
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