LM Studio Users Say the Company Buried Its Own App: Every Download Link Now Points to the Bionic Agent
A post with an unusually high 126 comments on 128 upvotes documents that LM Studio replaced nearly every download link on its site with its new agentic harness Bionic, leaving the original app reachable only via a small footer link, while the core app has shipped just two or three minor updates since Bionic launched — mostly to make it work with Bionic. Bionic is still labeled 'preview' and a 'new, separate app,' yet gets all the promotion. The top comment (183 upvotes) reads it as monetization pressure and pushes people to llama.cpp directly, calling LM Studio and Ollama wrappers that 'leech on llama.cpp and practically never contribute anything back' — a live example of the local-inference community's dependency anxiety when a friendly frontend pivots to an agent product.
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