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nextlevelwizard on Jan 25, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries

What is the benefit?

Ollama already exposes REST API that you can query with whatever language (or you know, just using curl) - why do I want to use Python or JS?

JrProgrammer on Jan 25, 2024 | [–]

What’s the benefit of abstracting something?

nextlevelwizard on Jan 25, 2024 | | [–]

There is a reason why "leftpad" is followed by "incident".

girvo on Jan 25, 2024 | [–]

That one doesn’t have to write the glue code around your HTTP client library?

nextlevelwizard on Jan 25, 2024 | [–]

Feels pretty bad to install dependency just so you can avoid making a HTTP request.

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