There's something extremely odd about the drama that occurs around justine in particular. It makes me feel there's some iceberg of things I don't know going on and I genuinely don't have the faintest clue what it is. I just know they make some cool software, like APE, cosmopolitan libc, and I believe landlock-make, which are inspirational projects to people who love clever yet practical hacks.

As for these LLaMA changes, I ran it on my machine for fun, and it worked perfectly. I wound up re-converting my models, but it doesn't take terribly long to do so even for 65B. After that, generation starts nearly instantaneously, which is very impressive. I wouldn't be surprised if there are legitimate problems with the change. Obviously people who deleted their local copy of the original model to save disk space are probably displeased, and maybe it is a massive performance reduction in some cases.

I wish I understood, and yet I fear I don't really want to know at the same time.

edit: At least in this case, it seems like it's mostly drama around attribution and unnecessary changes. Kind of sad that an otherwise really useful code change wound up being marred by probably-avoidable drama, but such is life ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Honestly, I don't have any input, I just hope everyone can resolve their gripes amicably in due time.