You’re reading a personal blog and complaining about an open source personal project he runs and distributes for free. He’s allowed to talk about his personal work on his personal blog. Especially considering the cli utility he talks about is directly related to the post.
Imagine complaining about someone generating valuable content for free and not packaging it to your personal tastes.
He’s a talented developer who is selling nothing and wrote a post on his personal blog about a newly released LLM and mentioned that he used his own tooling to call the API.
He isn’t selling anything in this post (go ahead and show me where in the post I can buy something. A clearly delineated “sponsored by” sentence exists outside of the post, but does not in any way fit the definition of spam). Look into his reputation and blog history, it’s just him talking about what he is passionate about.
I’m only defending Simon because truly independent, non commercial work like his blog is incredibly rare and should be encouraged and not shit on by drive by commenters who can’t be bothered to distinguish between spam and actual content.
If you want to complain about spammers, find some spam first.
Lighten up.
You’re reading a personal blog and complaining about an open source personal project he runs and distributes for free. He’s allowed to talk about his personal work on his personal blog. Especially considering the cli utility he talks about is directly related to the post.
Imagine complaining about someone generating valuable content for free and not packaging it to your personal tastes.
> Imagine complaining about someone generating valuable content for free and not packaging it to your personal tastes.
We complain about spammers all the time, what's wrong with that?
Simon isn’t a spammer.
He’s a talented developer who is selling nothing and wrote a post on his personal blog about a newly released LLM and mentioned that he used his own tooling to call the API.
He isn’t selling anything in this post (go ahead and show me where in the post I can buy something. A clearly delineated “sponsored by” sentence exists outside of the post, but does not in any way fit the definition of spam). Look into his reputation and blog history, it’s just him talking about what he is passionate about.
I’m only defending Simon because truly independent, non commercial work like his blog is incredibly rare and should be encouraged and not shit on by drive by commenters who can’t be bothered to distinguish between spam and actual content.
If you want to complain about spammers, find some spam first.
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I think ~15,000 downloads a day is pretty good https://pypistats.org/packages/llm