Comment by mchiang
3 days ago
Rightful worry, and we had the same doubts before we embarked on this. Ollama serves developers, there is no doubt about that. The CLI isn’t getting dropped, in fact, what we’ve learned in building it is having the interface interacting with Ollama is a great way for us to dogfood Ollama while building it.
There are so many choices for having an interface, and as a developer you should have a choice in selecting the UI you want. It will all continue to work with Ollama. Nothing about that changes.
Thanks for the response, appreciated. It confirms my feelings though: there are already so many choices for an interface, why are you - a team of people who built a backend LLM - now spending your time doing front end stuff under the same backend product name?
This is sending a very loud message that your focus is drifting away from why I use your product. If it was drifting away into something new and original that supplements my usage of your product, I could see the value, but like you said: there's already so many choices of good interface. Now you're going to have to play catchup against people whose first choice and genuine passion is LLM frontend UIs.
Sorry! I will still use ollama, and thank you so much for all the time and effort put in. I probably wouldn't have had a fraction of the local LLM fun I've had if it wasn't for ollama, even if my main usage is through openwebui. Ultimately, my personal preference is software that does 1 thing and does it well. Others prefer the opposite: tightly integrated all-bells-and-whistles, and I'm sure those people will appreciate this more than me - do what works for you, it's worked so far:)