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Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Post by minimaxir » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

felooboolooomba wrote: post #15

minimaxir wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And? Is that a scandal?

I'm interested in your thought process. How did you get from his initial statement opening of "A friendly reminder ..." to thinking that this was a scandal?

It's a common discussion trope to imply malfeasance in response to good news, which is a way to non-constructively shut down a conversation particularly without elaboration. In this particular case I legit didn't understand what the OP was actually implying because they did not elaborate.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Post by dominotw » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

gehsty wrote: post #14

This kind of thing just makes me think Apple will get to a point where they have good enough local models and good enough harnesses for doing things, and most normal people will just use them… Does the LLM become another interface to computing?

or the other way where primary interfaces ppl use computing arent apple devices like laptops and phones.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Post by tokai » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #5

blitzar wrote: post #3

I am not sure I get this. It seems on first glance like just another harness ...

Built to work with lmstudio, one of the leading easy to use local model servers. LMStudio is the closest to plug-and-play without sacrificing play that I've seen; a harness that works well with it is nothing to sniff at. Its not earth shattering either.

How does it work with lmstudio? Its a separate standalone application.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Post by cpursley » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:09 PM UTC

thehamkercat wrote: post #6

A friendly reminder that both LM Studio app and now this new LM Studio Bionic app are closed source. Since most people are unaware of this fact.

Does anyone know about their stack - is it a native app? It's fairly well designed for what it is in terms of desktop apps.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Post by nodja » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:11 PM UTC

thehamkercat wrote: post #6

A friendly reminder that both LM Studio app and now this new LM Studio Bionic app are closed source. Since most people are unaware of this fact.

Yup, it's the main reason I don't use LM studio more. I only use it to try out new models/quants, then use llama.cpp directly to host them. LM Studio also doesn't do stuff like audio input and often has bugs that pure llama.cpp doesn't so it can be a net negative for certain use cases.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Post by folkrav » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:13 PM UTC

radial_symmetry wrote: post #9

cyanydeez wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

some people want to make money, others want to improve social progress. Happy to clarify which is who and who is which.

You can do both

Sure. I still don't think it's particularly controversial to acknowledge that the two don't necessarily align either, and that neither really incentivizes the other.

Less unanimous and debatable, but many would say they more often do not align than the opposite.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Post by woadwarrior01 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC

blitzar wrote: post #3

I am not sure I get this. It seems on first glance like just another harness ...

Ultimately, the onus at every VC backed local LLM startup is to launch a cloud based offering, because that's the only potential path in sight for venture scale returns.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Post by ls612 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

gehsty wrote: post #14

This kind of thing just makes me think Apple will get to a point where they have good enough local models and good enough harnesses for doing things, and most normal people will just use them… Does the LLM become another interface to computing?

I have thought this for a while. Computing 1.0 meant that we needed to learn the computer’s language to interact with the computer fully. Computing 2.0 is that now the computer has learned our language instead.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Post by woadwarrior01 » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

cpursley wrote: post #24

thehamkercat wrote: post #6

A friendly reminder that both LM Studio app and now this new LM Studio Bionic app are closed source. Since most people are unaware of this fact.

Does anyone know about their stack - is it a native app? It's fairly well designed for what it is in terms of desktop apps.

The desktop app's GUI is electron.js based.

Re: LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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Post by belowavgiq » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC

Normal_gaussian wrote: post #5

blitzar wrote: post #3

I am not sure I get this. It seems on first glance like just another harness ...

Built to work with lmstudio, one of the leading easy to use local model servers. LMStudio is the closest to plug-and-play without sacrificing play that I've seen; a harness that works well with it is nothing to sniff at. Its not earth shattering either.

built to work with an OpenAI API compatible endpoint, just like any other harness...

and if someone can't figure out how to write down an address it's very likely they also can't figure out how to make local models not suck for coding, and would likely switch back to codex/cc after 15 minutes anyways.