Anyone tried using this as a sub-agent for a more capable model like Claude/Codex?
The combined (input/output) context window length is 4K. Claude would blow through that even when trying to read and summarize a small file.
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#13Anyone tried using this as a sub-agent for a more capable model like Claude/Codex?
project started with
trying to run openclaw with it in ultra token saving mode, did totally not work.
great for shell scripts though (my major use case now)
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#14It’s a very small model but I’ve been playing with it for some time now I’m impressed. Have we been sleeping on Apple’s models?
Imagine they baked Qwen 3.5 level stuff into the OS. Wow that’d be cool.
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#15It’s a very small model but I’ve been playing with it for some time now I’m impressed. Have we been sleeping on Apple’s models? Imagine they baked Qwen 3.5 level stuff into the OS. Wow that’d be cool.
The vision models and OCR are SUPER
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#16Cool tool but I don't get why these websites make idiotic claims
> $0 cost
No kidding.
Why not just link the GH Github: https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel
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#17Cool tool but I don't get why these websites make idiotic claims > $0 cost No kidding. Why not just link the GH Github: https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel
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#18I’ve seen several projects like this that offer a network server with access to these Apple models. The danger is when they expose that, even on a loop port, to every other application on your system, including the browser. Random webpages are now shipping with JavaScript that will post to that port. Same-origin restrictions will stop data flow back to the webpage, but that doesn’t stop them from issuing commands to make changes.
Some such projects use CORS to allow read back as well. I haven’t read Apfel’s code yet, but I’m registering the experiment before performing it.
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#19I’ve seen several projects like this that offer a network server with access to these Apple models. The danger is when they expose that, even on a loop port, to every other application on your system, including the browser. Random webpages are now shipping with JavaScript that will post to that port. Same-origin restrictions will stop data flow back to the webpage, but that doesn’t stop them from issuing commands to…
I don’t think many browsers will allow posting to 127.0.0.1 from a random website. What’s the threat model here?
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#20I’ve seen several projects like this that offer a network server with access to these Apple models. The danger is when they expose that, even on a loop port, to every other application on your system, including the browser. Random webpages are now shipping with JavaScript that will post to that port. Same-origin restrictions will stop data flow back to the webpage, but that doesn’t stop them from issuing commands to…
They offer it as an option but default it to false! This is still a --footgun option but it’s the least unsafe version I’ve seen yet! Well done, Apfel authors.