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- stop using ollama - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
Cool to learn that the founders also had a hand in developing Docker Desktop in the past!
- stop using ollama - https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
I think the "8.9 million developers use ollama" figure they throw around is contrived. I found this 2025 article which posits that there were 47.2 million software developers in the world. Even the number of developers has doubled in a year (plausible if you account for the rise in vibe coding), I think it's very unlikely that 1 in 10 developers use ollama. https://www.slashdata.co/post/global-developer-population-tr…
Cool to learn that the founders also had a hand in developing Docker Desktop in the past!
Does anyone actually like Docker Desktop? I much preferred Docker before it had weird UI parts to too. Have since switched to Podman.
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See also: why friends don't let friends use permissive software licenses. The llama.cpp authorized ollama to do this... Unintentionally.
Literally the main point of this blog post: >The project’s binary distributions didn’t include the required MIT license notice for the llama.cpp code they were shipping. This isn’t a matter of open-source etiquette, the MIT license has exactly one major requirement: include the copyright notice. Ollama didn’t.
A lot of hate for Ollama in this thread. Am I understanding correctly that it is all based on not crediting llama.cpp correctly? I can't find any other argument against it, other than some minor performance differences. Where Ollama stands out is user interface. It's easy to overlook how difficult and important that is.
Their docker-like extending and defining new models is really simple (coming from a docker background).
Installing new models with llama.cpp seems nontrivial. Perhaps it was using the mac dmg instead of curl-pipe-sh.
Unfortunately then llama.cpp crashed my laptop - no error, no feedback, just frozen desktop and reboot.
Went back to a much slower experience with ollama but it just works out of the box… sorry to say.
Cool to learn that the founders also had a hand in developing Docker Desktop in the past!
Does anyone actually like Docker Desktop? I much preferred Docker before it had weird UI parts to too. Have since switched to Podman.