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nta. I think it's good. It's a tool that helps people make tools.
I don't use them for programming because I actually like it. But I see normies struggle to get the point of programming. Suddenly everyone gets a free saw, hammer and nails and they can build their own stuff, even if virtually.
>it's a waste of effort (or at least inference compute) to have hundreds of variations of a chatbot interface instead of a single standard good one.
A single user interface that tries to appeal to everyone will end up, invariably, bloated. The only thing all of ST's sliders, buttons, tabs and list of settings do is concatenate text and send it over to the backend. And often you see anons wondering why things work or not depending on what they select. Clients hide how simple the interaction with models is (once you have the backend running, of course).
But once you understand those interactions, clients seem clunky or limited. So good on them for making their own stuff.
I chose vim as my client because I see LMs as a tool to edit text. A proper text editor seemed the best fit.