Hi Product Hunt, I'm the maker of Shlexball. - Mac app: describe a file in plain English and it finds it. It runs on-device; files never leave your Mac. - Base model: Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct. We fine-tuned it (SFT) to write a search plan that a read-only sandbox runs. - FindBench, our own benchmark, passes a test only if the returned files match exactly. On 312 tests unseen in training: Shlexball 280, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 151, Gemma 4 31B 145 (each given 30 examples). - Caveats: tests and scorer are private for now. The generator behind our training data also wrote these tests, and they helped us pick the checkpoint. Scores are for raw model output; the app also adds plural forms. With that step (pilot): ours 308, Flash-Lite 250. - Gemini 3.8 Flash (not on our board): 180 raw, 295 with that step. - Big shoutout to Apple's MLX, which runs the model on your Mac. Also built with ripgrep, jq and Sparkle. - macOS 15, Apple silicon, 16 GB. 30 free searches, then 9 USD a month or 59 USD a year. Feedback welcome, especially searches it gets wrong.

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Describe a file and a local AI model finds it on your Mac

Describe a file and a local AI model finds it on your Mac