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p1anecrazy wrote: post #5

Really like demo cli tools description. Are they limited by the context window as well? What’s your experience with log file sizes?

the 2 hard limits of Appel Intelligence Foundation Model and therefor apfel is the 4k token context window and the super hard guardrails (the model prefers to tell you nothing before it tells you something wrong ie ask it to describe a color)

parsing logfiles line by line, sure

parsing a whole logfile, well it must be tiny, logfile hardly ever are

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Post by khalic » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 10:54 AM UTC

AFM models are very impressive, but they’re not made for conversation, so keep your expectations down in chat mode.

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Post by elcritch » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 10:56 AM UTC

Any know if these only installed on Tahoe? I'm running Sequoia still and get an error about model not found.

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Post by swiftcoder » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 11:01 AM UTC

Anyone tried using this as a sub-agent for a more capable model like Claude/Codex?

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Post by HelloUsername » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

elcritch wrote: post #8

Any know if these only installed on Tahoe? I'm running Sequoia still and get an error about model not found.

> Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 26 Tahoe or newer, Apple Intelligence enabled