LLM Chat via SSH

38 points by wey-gu 338 days ago | 24 comments

demosthanos 336 days ago |

Skimming the source code I got really confused to see TSX files. I'd never seen Ink (React for CLIs) before, and I like it!

Previously discussions of Ink:

July 2017 (129 points, 42 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14831961

May 2023 (588 points, 178 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35863837

Nov 2024 (164 points, 106 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016639

ccbikai 334 days ago | |

Many CLI applications are now using Ink to write their UIs.

I suspect React will eventually standardize all UI writing approaches.

amelius 336 days ago |

I'd rather apt-get install something.

But that seems not a possibility in the modern days of software distribution, especially with GPU-dependent stuff like LLMs.

So yeah, I get why this exists.

halJordan 335 days ago | |

What is the complaint here? There are plenty of binaries you can invoke through your cli that will query a remote llm api

gsibble 336 days ago |

We made this a while ago on the web:

https://terminal.odai.chat

gbacon 336 days ago |

Wow, that produced a flashback to using TinyFugue in the 90s.

https://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MUD_clients

dncornholio 336 days ago |

Using React to render a CLI tool is something. I'm not sure how I feel about that. It feels like like 90% of the code is handling issues with rendering.

demosthanos 336 days ago | |

I mean, it's a thin wrapper around LLM APIs, so it's not surprising that most of the code is rendering. I'm not sure what you're referring to by "handling issues with rendering", though—it looks like a pretty bog standard React app. Am I missing something?

xigoi 335 days ago |

It’s not clear from the README what providers it uses and why it needs your GitHub username.

ccbikai 334 days ago | |

Connects to any OpenAI-compatible API.

Using a GitHub username prevents abuse.

gclawes 336 days ago |

Is this doing local inference? If so, what inference engine is it using?

demosthanos 336 days ago | |

No, it's a thin wrapper around an API, probably OpenRouter or similar:

https://github.com/ccbikai/ssh-ai-chat/blob/master/src/ai/in...

ccbikai 334 days ago | |

Currently using the OpenAI API to access multiple models. You can use ollama to access local inference models

ryancnelson 336 days ago |

this is neat.... whose anthropic credits am i using, though? sonnet-4 isn't cheap! would i hit a rate-limit if i used this for daily work?

ccbikai 338 days ago |

I am the author, thank you for your support.

Welcome to help maintain it with me

kimjune01 338 days ago |

hey i just tried it. it's cool! i wish it was more self aware

ccbikai 338 days ago | |

Thank you for your feedback; I will optimize the prompt

t0ny1 336 days ago |

does this project request to llm providers?

cap11235 336 days ago | |

Are you serious? Yeah, its using gemini 2.5 pro without a server, sure yeah.

eisbaw 336 days ago |

Why not telnet?

accrual 336 days ago | |

I'd love to see an LLM outputting over a Teletype. Just tschtschtschtsch as it hammers away the paper feed.

cap11235 336 days ago | | |

Last week or so, there was the LLM finetune posted that speaks like a 19th century Irish author. I look forward a bit to having an LLModem model.

RALaBarge 336 days ago | |

No HTTPS support

benterix 336 days ago | | |

I bet someone can write an API Gateway for this...