The discussion
Most commenters land on the install method rather than the tool: the README’s curl pipe to bash one-liner drew the loudest reply, kicking off a long argument over whether piping a stranger’s script into a shell is actually worse than npm install or pip install. The sharpest objection runs both ways. Defenders note the script only fetches a SHA-256-checked, attestation-verified binary from the same repo, and that package managers already execute arbitrary setup.py and postinstall code anyway, so the outrage is theatre. Critics counter that a mutable server-side script defeats the shared-artifact property that makes a fixed release zip auditable once for everyone, and that the intended audience is developers with enterprise credentials in their environment. A second split is over whether the prize justifies the trouble: owners of 256GB laptops call 14GB of models 10-20% of their disk, while others say Apple Intelligence just works now and only people who cannot spare the storage care.