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I love Ente Auth, but Ente (as a company/organization) does a somewhat poor job of calling out their non-photos apps in their branding and on their website. If you go to the "Download" button at the top of the page on this page about their LLM chat app, it downloads... their photo sharing application. If you click Sign Up, it takes you to a signup page with the browser title "Ente Photos" but the page text says "Priv…
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…
I hate to say it, but this looks like the sort of thing a CEO told their team to build on Monday morning in a panic because they are grasping for ways to participate in the AI craze. And the team did just that: they built it that morning using Claude Code. There is truly nothing original here and the product doesn't have a chance in hell of earning money. Local LLMs on-device will be dominated by the device vendors,…
Same with Kagi. Thats where Kagi news was born.
I quite like the ethos, but this Ensu definitely seems underbaked.
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'm not exaggerating). This probably could have been one-shotted with Sonnet, not even Opus. Given how over indexed they are on LLM coding, Haiku might even be able to do it. This is actually an interesting coding model benchmark task now that I think about it.
Maybe I’m missing it but the page is really light on technical information. Is this a quantized / distilled model of a larger LLM? Which one? How many parameters? What quantization? What T/s can I expect? What are the VRAM requirements? Etc etc
You can see what it uses here - https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/main/web/apps/ensu/src/... Either LFM2.5-1.6B-4bit or Qwen3.5-2B-8bit or Qwen3.5-4B-4bit
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Oooh thanks a lot. This looks promising. Maybe the only missing thing would be sone kind of (economic) incentive to share GPU power. Although the ability to use large models "for free" sounds pretty rad.
I’d volunteer my spare gpu time if i knew it was going to … idk basically anyone except spammers, scammers, and corpos.
But the alternative is "not having Email", because Email can be used by the same bad actors.
I don't understand all the hate about ente, to be honest. Ente seems to try to solve the big tech lock in with their apps. Personally, i'm a very happy Ente Photos user, so what's the problem with Ensu? It's available on desktops and mobile, it's an app trying to give all a little bit more privacy and freedom and yet most comments are just hating on it. If you can vibe code Ensu in a week end, please do. Make a bette…
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> Anyone could've one-shotted this in Claude in an hour (I'm not exaggerating). This probably could have been one-shotted with Sonnet, not even Opus. Given how over indexed they are on LLM coding, Haiku might even be able to do it. This is actually an interesting coding model benchmark task now that I think about it.
You'd think any one of these great LLMs that claim coding is over would take a non-trivial app and just clone it while fully documenting the process. If it's so great, why is there so little viscera documenting it's greatness? Just lots and lots of words.
Coding is definitely not over IMO. Not yet anyway
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This is one of the reason I, as their user, am moving away. Things feel half-baked and I stopped trusting it with my data. I self host and the details for this were all over the place. Some of my contributions cleaning up the docs were rejected, so I grew even more wary. I am moving to Immich, even though I'd prefer e2ee for my photos even if I self host them. EDIT: and there are long-standing bugs like this one, una…
Further proving my point, I wasn't sure if you - a fellow commenter! - were talking about Ente Auth or Ente Photos until I re-read your comment and the linked issue. I think that they have great product(s) but terrible branding and apparently some growing pains as well.
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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.
Helpful writeup here: https://pvieito.com/2026/01/inside-claude-cowork (I am not the author)
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I hate to say it, but this looks like the sort of thing a CEO told their team to build on Monday morning in a panic because they are grasping for ways to participate in the AI craze. And the team did just that: they built it that morning using Claude Code. There is truly nothing original here and the product doesn't have a chance in hell of earning money. Local LLMs on-device will be dominated by the device vendors,…
To be fair I've followed ente for a while and they seem to let their teams have side projects if it falls in line with the overall ente ethos. Same with Kagi. Thats where Kagi news was born. I quite like the ethos, but this Ensu definitely seems underbaked.