Comment by CamperBob2
2 days ago
I never install this stuff manually anymore. Just tell your LLM of choice to download model X from URL Y, build the latest inference engine of choice E, and then create batch files or shell scripts to run instruct and/or reasoning models in accordance with instructions at URL Z.
While you probably have the audacity to check the commands and code that your favorite LLM generates to complete this task, i'm pretty much certain that at some point in time, due to this pervasive mindset of "just let an AI agent do it," we'll have a front page news story of someone who had their family photos on their NAS uploaded to some public space, their security cameras connected to a "live porn for lolz" webring, and perhaps even their crypto wallets and bank accounts pilfered, all because their favorite LLM got exploited by some prompt injection attack while trying to be helpful doing system administration tasks.
I remember there was a short story in BYTE Magazine about a similar kind of scenario way back when, I think at least 30 years ago, long before LLMs and AI agents became a reality.
It's a risk, all right. I don't even use containers or VMs, I run automated installs on a dedicated server.
Very occasionally I'll have Claude install something on my dev box, but not without close supervision.
Promise I'm not being flippant or rude, but why not ask it to write something like a parameterized script to do the same thing for you ?
Laziness, primarily. Plus, no two models are exactly alike, and some have different instructions in their model card or on the HF page.
Hmm I'm still struggling with the downloading of all the models I want to try locally, so I might be out of the loop, but all of this, including tuning (to your local HW), feels like it could be automated. I'm old though.