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Re: Fastpotify

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Post by alexyoung »

I realise I’m pissing into the wind here, but I find the LLM text on the homepage and docs quite funny/ awkward.

> “Ctrl+M turns it into a tiny player that wears any classic Winamp 2 skin, spectrum analyser, equalizer, and playlist included. 2000s vibes, pixel for pixel.”

Everything is said with too much intensity, and phrasing that sounds impressive but doesn’t really mean that much. Like “wears any classic Winamp 2 skin” feels so awkward, what’s “wears”? You mean it can use it?

I feel like if you can’t be bothered to write the code, at least document it yourself and write the marketing copy so I know you understand the product. Otherwise how can I trust running it on my computer? Did the LLM generate some amazing rm -rf somewhere, or another blunder that wrecks data I might care about?

Re: Fastpotify

#142

Post by TonyStr »

txdv wrote: post #72
nalekberov wrote: post #35

Without looking at the codebase I am pretty sure it’s a vibe coded rust app, because this is what today’s most programmers understand about software.

the commits are very fine grained and the text is unusually not AI. I mean you can beat AI to do anything nowadays, but this looks not that bad

The volume of commits is quite crazy. For example, he wrote a +486/-51 commit in 20 minutes (33287cb) with quite dense rust code. That's about 25 changes per minute -- very impressive! The docs also smell of LLM output, for example describing the app as native despite using egui/wgpu.

But hey, he's here, we can just ask him! @earcar

Re: Fastpotify

#143

Post by doublerabbit »

alexyoung wrote: post #141

I realise I’m pissing into the wind here, but I find the LLM text on the homepage and docs quite funny/ awkward. > “Ctrl+M turns it into a tiny player that wears any classic Winamp 2 skin, spectrum analyser, equalizer, and playlist included. 2000s vibes, pixel for pixel.” Everything is said with too much intensity, and phrasing that sounds impressive but doesn’t really mean that much. Like “wears any classic Winamp 2…

I too enjoy wearing the RealPlayer skin of the 90's. Makes me look very chic.

Re: Fastpotify

#144

Post by doublerabbit »

IshKebab wrote: post #99
sznio wrote: post #92

I've been thinking recently about buying an AI-capable GPU and using it to reverse-enginner and debloat apps I use every day. It seems like a task that even a dumber AI model could do. Disassemble the app, then either cut the things I don't care about, or just implement it fresh in a correct way.

I don't think models that run on single GPUs are capable of that yet sadly. You still need to spend ~$100k to get an actually good local LLM. Correct me if I'm wrong, local AI guys. It's really hard to get actually numbers on this stuff, but to run e.g. GLM 5.3 Flash as far as I can tell you need one of those super expensive 8 GPU machines.

Aye, and those 8GPU machines are expensive. Powering 2x GPU for GLM is eye watering expense, £5k a month.

Re: Fastpotify

#146

Post by progbits »

What do you all use to buy music these days?

I've been slowly trying to stop my spotify usage and replace it with owned audio files.

Mostly I try to use Bandcamp but many artists are not there. Sometimes I just rip the audio from youtube but would prefer a way to buy that gives most of the money to the artist.

Re: Fastpotify

#147

Post by Traubenfuchs »

GuestFAUniverse wrote: post #118

That name is horrible. Potify sounds like a toddler is learning to take a dump. And well, putting "fast" in front of it doesn't impress either in that case.

Potify, the scientifically proven way to get toddlers potty trained, with wearables, app support and an AI coach.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by [deleted] »

mijoharas wrote: post #129
mappu wrote: post #49

If you're focused on lightweight, native and fast, I don't think you should use an immediate-mode GUI toolkit. Why does an app like this need to hit a 60fps framerate? It's not a game.

I was surprised to see an immediate mode gui toolkit. They're great to integrate into a game loop because you control your loop, (and they're a delight to use) but I thought for perf retained mode was the way to go? Am I missing something? Then again if the bar needing to be beaten is spotify's existing desktop app maybe it doesn't matter?

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