Meat-based LLM proxies

meat-based llm proxies · not-an-llm

I am noticing one thing becoming more prominent over time; meat-based LLM proxies.

If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how the fuck do you even know whats going on?

I think the title captures the idea fully but I'll dig into it because this ain't Twitter. You're working an idea, a piece of code, or a multibillion a year SaaS app which is probably saving the world. Maybe you're automating the cloning process of grabbing

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Xuan-Son Nguyen on Twitter / X

Firefox is open-source on Github, and they experimented with @ggml_org llama.cpp in WASM 👀Wondering what they are cooking 🧑‍🍳 pic.twitter.com/mMtVZo0gc2— Xuan-Son Nguyen (@ngxson) May 13, 2025

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