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

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Cool work! Aside but 12 MB is ... large ... for such a thing. For reference, an entire HTTP (including crypto, TLS) stack with LLM API calls in Zig would net you a binary ~400 KB on ReleaseSmall (statically linked). You can implement an entire language, compiler, and a VM in another 500 KB (or less!) I don't think 12 MB is an impressive badge here?

it's written in golang. 12MB barely gets you "hello world" since everything is statically linked. With that in mind, the size is impressive.

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

#72
post #71
post #70

Cool work! Aside but 12 MB is ... large ... for such a thing. For reference, an entire HTTP (including crypto, TLS) stack with LLM API calls in Zig would net you a binary ~400 KB on ReleaseSmall (statically linked). You can implement an entire language, compiler, and a VM in another 500 KB (or less!) I don't think 12 MB is an impressive badge here?

it's written in golang. 12MB barely gets you "hello world" since everything is statically linked. With that in mind, the size is impressive.

I know off topic, but is that mostly coming from the Go runtime (how large is that about?)

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

#73
This is what I've been trying to get nanobot to do, so thanks for sharing this. I plan to use this for workflow definitions like filesystems.

I have a known workflow to create an RPG character with steps, lets automate some of the boilerplate by having a succession of LLMs read my preferences about each step and apply their particular pieces of data to that step of the workflow, outputting their result to successive subdirectories, so I can pub/sub the entire process and make edits to intermediate files to tweak results as I desire.

Now that's cool!

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

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post #17

12MB for an "AI framework replacement"? That's either brilliant compression or someone's redefining "framework" to mean "toy model that works on my laptop." Show me the benchmarks on actual workloads, not the readme poetry.

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

#77
post #70

Cool work! Aside but 12 MB is ... large ... for such a thing. For reference, an entire HTTP (including crypto, TLS) stack with LLM API calls in Zig would net you a binary ~400 KB on ReleaseSmall (statically linked). You can implement an entire language, compiler, and a VM in another 500 KB (or less!) I don't think 12 MB is an impressive badge here?

12 MB is not large; it's like 3 minutes of watching YouTube. Actual RAM consumption is only very weakly correlated to the binary size, and that's what matters.

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

#78
Nice! I’ll try this soon, and I’m afraid I’ll end up using it a lot.

@jrswab, do you think it would be feasible to limit outgoing connections to a whitelist of domains, URLs, or IP addresses?

I’d like to automate some of my email, calendar, or timesheet tasks, but I’m concerned that a prompt injection could end up exfiltrating or deleting data. In fact, that’s the main reason why I’m not using Openclaw or similar projects with real data yet.

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

#79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clankers are not humans.

This is the second time I've seen somebody use the word "clankers" in the last couple days to refer to AI. Is that a thing now? Where'd that come from? Gonna be honest, it has taken away from the message both times I've seen it. It feels a bit like you're LARPing your favorite humans vs robots tv show.

I've been hearing the term in IRC and discords for about a year or more already.

I get that it can seem childish but when you compare that to the indolent people who are demanding AI, it cancels out.

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