Axilla
AI
llm application framework
SHOW HN2023
161points
40comments
#377of 3,109 in 2023
Top 13%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
6 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 4 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
TypeScript-first approach is welcome
From 3 comments
Hey Nick and Ben, congrats to launch! I really like that you're going in the TS way by default. I personally think there will me more AI Engineers (devs building LLM apps/agents)…
mlejva on HNWe use GPT-4 pretty heavily in a Typescript project, but have noticed lag from the TS versions of popular libraries (OpenAI’s npm lib, Langchain TS, etc.). This framework is…
jumploops on HNCongrats on building the library! I’ve recently been playing around with the js implementation of langchain, and I’m excited for there to be more high quality typescript support…
fosterfriends on HN
Demo looks promising
From 2 comments
Hi, I checked out the demo and it looks very promising. As someone who is not very familiar with AI development, I feel a bit puzzled looking at the code examples. If I use the…
rzmmm on HNHi Nick and Ben, Looked at the demo. Great job! I'll be trying it soon!
astrodude on HN
Objections
Name means armpit in Spanish and Portuguese
From 4 comments
What a horrible name. Why? Just why? You are putting so much love into something to give it a name that is so bad?
kwanbix on HNYeah, I'd reconsider this too. If this sounds too opinionated so far, I'll give you a fact. As a Spanish speaker, this is also a little too close to the word for armpit, and I'd…
dietr1ch on HNFeedback: Axila in Spanish means armpit
capitanazo77 on HN"Axilla" in Portuguese means "armpit" (it's spelt "axila"). I like the name more because of this. Congrats on the launch! As a developer who's been working a lot with TypeScript…
SwiftyBug on HN
Abstraction layers over LLM APIs add little value
From 1 comment
I've come to the conclusion that anything that "abstracts" the openai complete/chat complete API call is just bad practice and to stay away from the entire framework, with the…
fswd on HN
Founders' Cruise background is weak credential for RAG work and the pitch reads as hype
From 2 comments
My two cents which you are free to ignore (and I almost implore you to ignore): I'm sure this is useful but as someone who works at an AV company and is building with these new…
BoorishBears on HNI just don't see many people shipping AI software right now in the way AI applies to AVs. But I'm also giving you my two cents as someone who's not only building in the space,…
BoorishBears on HN
Performance of JavaScript for ML tasks is questioned
From 2 comments
I'm gonna be that guy who will probably show up sooner or later anyway, but... I can't imagine performance can compete with other languages? What were your findings or experience…
fullstackchris on HNI'm no expert in actual ML implementations but I was under the impression that Python (i.e Tensorflow) is actually C/C++ based under the hood. I just meant I can't imagine the V8…
fullstackchris on HN
Requests
Caching layer for deterministic responses
From 1 comment
We use GPT-4 pretty heavily in a Typescript project, but have noticed lag from the TS versions of popular libraries (OpenAI’s npm lib, Langchain TS, etc.). This framework is…
jumploops on HN
Integrations via PRs
From 1 comment
Hey Nick and Ben, congrats to launch! I really like that you're going in the TS way by default. I personally think there will me more AI Engineers (devs building LLM apps/agents)…
mlejva on HN
Questions
Can LLM outputs be trusted to be well structured from templated prompts?
From 1 comment
Hi, I checked out the demo and it looks very promising. As someone who is not very familiar with AI development, I feel a bit puzzled looking at the code examples. If I use the…
rzmmm on HN
Why is langchain-js considered bloatware?
From 1 comment
Why do you think langchainjs is bloatware?
zarazas on HN
Alternatives named
LangChain
From 3 comments
Amazing! I am working on projexts where we use LLMs and Typescript and and besides langchain-js which can be only described as bloatware, I can never find anything and find…
savy91 on HNWe use GPT-4 pretty heavily in a Typescript project, but have noticed lag from the TS versions of popular libraries (OpenAI’s npm lib, Langchain TS, etc.). This framework is…
jumploops on HNYea learning how to use the core API directly should be the focus for any engineer. Lots of frameworks built on top of LLMs are being made very quickly each with their own…
jawerty on HN
Microsoft Guidance
From 1 comment
I've come to the conclusion that anything that "abstracts" the openai complete/chat complete API call is just bad practice and to stay away from the entire framework, with the…
fswd on HN
Calling the OpenAI API directly with fetch
From 2 comments
Very cool. To be completely candid, we just hit OpenAI directly, no 3rd party libs involved at the moment (just fetch). We're open to trying more TS-focused libraries, but…
jumploops on HNI've come to the conclusion that anything that "abstracts" the openai complete/chat complete API call is just bad practice and to stay away from the entire framework, with the…
fswd on HN