Sure, I'm not using it with my company/enterprise account for that reason. But for my private sub, it's worth the tradeoff/risk. Ethically I see no issue at all, because those LLMs are trained on who knows what.
But you can use pi with z.ai or any of the other cheap Claude-distilled providers for a couple bucks per month. Just calculate the risk that your data might be sold I guess?
Is the app legitimate though? A few of these apps that deal with LLMs seem too good to be true and end up asking for suspiciously powerful API tokens in my experience (looking at Happy Coder).
It's legitimate, but its also extremely powerful and people tend to run it in very insecure ways or ways where their computer is wiped. Numerous examples and stories on X.
I used it for a bit, but it burned through tokens (even after the token fix) and it uses tokens for stuff that could be handled by if/then statements and APIs without burning a ton of tokens.
But it's a very neat and imperfect glimpse at the future.
They've recently added "lobster" which is an extension for deterministic workflows outside of the LLM, at least partially solving that problem. Also fixed a context caching bug that resulted in it using far more Anthropic tokens than it should have.
> it burned through tokens (even after the token fix) and it uses tokens for stuff that could be handled by if/then statements and APIs without burning a ton of tokens.
I looked at the code and have followed Peter, it's developer, for a long time and he has a good reputation?
> Sponsored by the token seller, perhaps?
I don't know what this means. Peter wasn't sponsored at the time, but he may or may not have some sort of arrangement with Minimax now. I have no clue.
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754944, I built a Linux clone of the app. Always had it in the back of my mind to create such a thing and this was the impetus needed.
Install using:
pip install postured
uv pip install postured
Disclaimer: built with Claude Code, tested by a human.
We fix this issue by distributing ours in a tar file with the executable bit set. Linux novices can just double click on the tar to exact it and double click again on the actual appimage.
Been doing it this way for years now, so it's well battle tested.
That kind of defeats the point of an AppImage though - you could just as well have a tar archive with a c classic collection of binaries + optional launcher script.
One challenge we have with Lua in Mudlet (FOSS text-based MUD client, think something akin to Roblox but for text) is that all of the player-created content is on Lua 5.1, and upgrading to 5.5 would be a breaking change for most.
Many people still use 5.1 because that is already a complete language that works fine. Most people don't really need the new features. Plus if you stay on 5.1 you get compatibility with LuaJit and Luau so much better performance.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only legal way to use pi is to use an API, and that's enormously expensive.
reply