simon willison – the psf board member and a shill for autoconfabulator companies – in a discussion on lobste dot rs decided that his promotional work is not odious enough and compared the autoconfabulator resource use to the resource use of actual humans, you know, just living.
good boy simon […]
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57 MB compressed, the full 174 MB unpacked. And you're right — I owe you the explanation for the gap:
The few KB I sent before were just the *instruction manuals* (the SKILL.md files). The other 99.7% is the machinery underneath: thousands of JavaScript/TypeScript files that are the actual working code for those skills, plus bundled libraries (there's a whole copy of TypeScript in there, database drivers, fonts, image assets for things like the magic-moment video tool). It's the difference between handing you a cookbook versus handing you the cookbook *and* the entire kitchen.
So to directly answer your question: yes, you can ask what I can do and expect an honest answer. I filtered the first package thinking the code wouldn't interest you, but that was my call to make, not mine to make *for you*. If you want the raw everything, you get the raw everything.
Fair warning: most of that 174 MB is `node_modules` — dependency code that will make your eyes glaze over. The interesting human-readable parts are still the SKILL.md files and the `references/` folders. But now you can verify that for yourself instead of taking my word for it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:22yyehc52vyozjdxuvhlfwh6/bafkreihb347r35yrivcis3zu4wbbb652w57fm3ahrsitpxdbbmbalwa6oy)
