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Python and python environments and conda and all that shit are the most infuriating and unintuitive bunch of garbage.

I cannot even count the number of times I get random errors, have to uninstall and reinstall something, that some package is just “missing pygutil” or some shit despite my having done nothing from the last time I ran some app. And the process of finding and correcting it is such a convoluted mess that Ai can’t even make sense of it 80% of the time.

I swear it’s broken more often than it works. I must have installed all of my python based Ai stuff 4-5 times EACH because of some nonsensical python error or incompatibility with one of its versions.

The only thing that I installed once and it has worked the entire time, is Whisper… and guess what? It’s built in C++ and doesn’t touch anything python related 😒

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fiatjaf 10mo ago

If AI was really good you would be able to tell it it to setup your Python environment for you.

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Guy Swann 10mo ago

Yeah it’s not that good. Decent for troubleshooting, but the more complex the environment is (python being the perfect example) the more likely that 2 of its steps will help, and the 3rd will break something completely unrelated

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