This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

One thing I keep noticing is that people underestimate continuous batching until they actually try to run this stuff for more than one afternoon.

Wondering if this is just where the whole space is heading now.

Thought I'd post a small recipe because a lot of threads ask similar things.

Just sharing a setup that ended up working reasonably well: Qwen, MLX, Threadripper box, with a lot of attention on tool calling.

If someone wants the exact settings I can clean them up and post them.

This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

One thing I keep noticing is that people underestimate prefix caching until they actually try to run this stuff for more than one afternoon.

Wondering if this is just where the whole space is heading now.

I care more about stability than squeezing the last possible tokens/sec out of it.

Has anyone else run into this?

I'm trying to decide whether to keep the current stack or change course. Main question is how people here are handling workstation thermals.

Not looking for the perfect answer, mostly what worked in real use.

This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

It feels like the conversation has shifted hard toward inference and serving details lately, and honestly that makes sense once you start dealing with long context.

Maybe obvious to some of you, but it clicked for me this week.

Thought I'd post a small recipe because a lot of threads ask similar things.

This isn't revolutionary, but the combination of MLX and A6000 felt surprisingly usable once I tuned around quant drift.

Maybe useful as a starting point for newer folks.

Curious what people here are seeing.

My current setup is LM Studio with 7900 XTX, and I keep running into structured output.

Would appreciate practical advice rather than theory.

Spent some time on this today and wanted to compare notes.

I've gone back and forth between MLX and vLLM for FLUX. The interesting difference for me has been quant drift.

What would you pick if you had to live with it for a few months?

I care more about stability than squeezing the last possible tokens/sec out of it.

This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

The more I work with local setups, the more it seems like reranking decides everything downstream.

Curious whether that lines up with what other people are seeing.

My use case is pretty ordinary: local chat, some document work, and occasional batch jobs.

Spent some time on this today and wanted to compare notes.

Two paths both seem viable, but they break down differently once prefill/decode split becomes important.

Trying to avoid rebuilding the whole thing twice.

My use case is pretty ordinary: local chat, some document work, and occasional batch jobs.