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Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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> Also unsure why they said "Claude Code", it's not an CLI agent AFAIK? Claude Code is a Desktop app as well.

I don’t think so. IIRC the desktop app is called Claude and it has a code option in the UI.

If you go to the product website: https://claude.com/product/claude-code

> Use Claude Code where you work

> Desktop Termianl IDE WEb and iOS Slack

Not that it is important any way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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post #22

I just tried it. It downloaded Qwen3.5 2B on my phone and it's pretty coherent in its sentences, but really annoying with the amount of Ente products mentioned in every occasion. Other than that it's fast enough to talk to and definitely an easy way to run a model locally on your phone.

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Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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I would love to see a "distributed LLM" system, where people can easily setup a system to perform a "piece" of a "mega model" inference or training. Kind of like SETI@home but for an open LLM (like https://github.com/evilsocket/cake but massive )

Ideally if you "participate" in the network, you would get "credits" to use it proportionally to how much GPU power you have provided to the network. Or if you can't, then buy credits (payment would be distributed as credits to other participants).

That way we could build huge LLMs that area really open and are not owned by any network.

I would LOVE to participate in building that as well.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

#75
post #66

Given how the blog is presented, I assumed this was something novel that solved a unique problem, maybe a local multi-modal assistant for your device. I installed it and it's none of that. It is a mere wrapper around small local LLM models. And, it's not even multi-modal! Anyone could've one-shotted this in Claude in an hour (I'm not exaggerating). What's the target audience here? Your average person doesn't care abo…

> Anyone could've one-shotted this in Claude in an hour

I think they did. If you start the download and then open the sidebar and/or background the app, the download progress bar disappears and is replaced by the download button. If you press the download button again, the progress bar reappears at the correct point.

I find that Claude often makes little statefulness mistakes like that. Human developers do too, but the slower and more iterative nature of human development makes it more likely that that would get caught.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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post #43

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> Also unsure why they said "Claude Code", it's not an CLI agent AFAIK? Claude Code is a Desktop app as well.

Ok, but "Claude Code"/"Claude Desktop" regardless is software, a tool, not a model/LLM. Doesn't make much sense as they've written it.

For the end user who just installs the app it's probably all the same. It's not a technical document.

For the user it's just important that the small grimlin that sits in the Ente app is not as smart as the grimlin that sits in the Claude app.

Re: Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app

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The "What's next" section is more interesting than what shipped. A general-purpose chat wrapper around a 1-4B model occupies a crowded space — PocketPal, Jan, LMStudio, GPT4All all do similar things. But the ideas they gesture at (a persistent "second brain" note, an LLM-backed launcher, long-term memory that grows with you) are actually differentiated
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