llamafile is not really “effective”. it’s incredibly impressive, but it’s the opposite of effective. it’s a collection of a bunch of hacks reliant on coincidences in OS design, and works by basically recompiling itself on the fly to work with different architectures.

if you want effective, run llama.cpp compiled with actual optimizations for your platform.

she was the face of the occupy wall street movement, but her views back then were more ancap than anti capital. while working for google she tried to petition the us government to shut itself down and hand the reins over to the tech industry, with google’s ceo as president.

the base of the APE library that powers llamafile is called cosmopolitan libC, iirc in direct reference to the old soviet term.

to give credit she’s mellowed out a lot in recent years.