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human evals on small teams for Llama - batchfield55 - 10-06-2026

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 prefix caching decides everything downstream.

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

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

I expected the biggest difference to come from the model, but the stack around it mattered at least as much.


Re: human evals on small teams for Llama - cudacrate - 10-06-2026

Interesting, I hadn't tried that. I don't think your conclusion is far off. The biggest change for me was simplifying the stack instead of adding one more optimization layer.


Re: human evals on small teams for Llama - oxidemixer - 10-09-2026

Appreciate the detail. I don't think your conclusion is far off. I got better results once I stopped chasing one metric and just looked at whether the workflow felt usable.


Re: human evals on small teams for Llama - vramarch - 10-09-2026

same here on my side.


Re: human evals on small teams for Llama - rasterbench - 10-09-2026

My first guess would be this: On M3 Max, the easiest win is often to back off the aggressive settings and see whether the problem survives.


Re: human evals on small teams for Llama - labpath - 10-09-2026

A couple things I'd check first. On 5090, the easiest win is often to back off the aggressive settings and see whether the problem survives.


Re: human evals on small teams for Llama - tinycontext - 10-12-2026

Good point. That matches what I saw on 5090. Worth rechecking your defaults though, because one bad assumption can make the rest of the thread look confusing.


Re: human evals on small teams for Llama - turboscope5 - 10-13-2026

that fixed it for me too.


Re: human evals on small teams for Llama - paperrunner - 10-14-2026

Can you fill in a bit more context? Do you see the same thing with a smaller batch or shorter prompt?


Re: human evals on small teams for Llama - localcraft17 - 10-14-2026

A couple questions before I guess too hard. Do you see the same thing with a smaller batch or shorter prompt?