Do you use it to help with schoolwork / work? Maybe to help you code projects, or to help teach you how to do something?

What are your preferred models and why?

  • brendansimms@lemmy.world
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    have you tried LM Studio as an interface? I havent tried open webui yet, just lm studio and text-generation-webui, so I am not sure if I’m limiting myself by using LM studio so much (I am very much a novice to the tech and do not work in computer science, so I’m trying to balance ease of use with customization)

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      1 day ago

      It sounds like we’re on similar levels of technical proficiency. I have learned a lot by reading and going down wormholes on how LLMs work and how to troubleshoot and even optimize them to an extent but I’m not a computer engineer or programmer for sure.

      I started with LM studio before Ollama/Open WebUI and it does have some good features and an overall decent UI. I switched because OWUI seems to have more extensibility with tools and functions etc and I wanted something I could run as a server and use on my phone and laptop elsewhere etc. OWUI has been great for that although setting up remote access for the server on the web did take a lot of trial and error. The OWUI team also develops and updates the software very quickly so that’s great.

      I’m not familiar with text-generation-WebUI but at this point I’m not really wanting for much more out of a setup than my docker stack with Ollama and OWUI

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        1 day ago

        Thanks for the excellent response! I’m going to give openwebui a try and do some of that trial and error as well - best way to learn!