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best sandbox for trying risky tools: anyone testing this? - cacheworks - 08-23-2026

Did a bit of testing and thought I'd post the result here.

I tried this with Mistral using MLX on M3 Max. The headline result was better than I expected, but continuous batching still ended up being the limiting factor.

Curious if anyone else landed in the same place.

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


Re: best sandbox for trying risky tools: anyone testing this? - benchplease - 08-23-2026

Need a little more detail here. Do you see the same thing with a smaller batch or shorter prompt?


Re: best sandbox for trying risky tools: anyone testing this? - thetafield - 08-24-2026

Maybe, but I had the opposite result. I've seen people blame NVFP4 when the real issue was much more mundane. Worth testing the simpler explanation before adopting the more interesting one.


Re: best sandbox for trying risky tools: anyone testing this? - kernelmike - 08-24-2026

Quote:Maybe, but I had the opposite result. I've seen people blame NVFP4 when the real issue was much more mundane. Worth testing the simpler explanation be

I hit almost the same issue last night.


Re: best sandbox for trying risky tools: anyone testing this? - vramarch - 08-25-2026

I don't think that's the whole story. I've seen people blame tool calling when the real issue was much more mundane. Worth testing the simpler explanation before adopting the more interesting one.


Re: best sandbox for trying risky tools: anyone testing this? - audiodesk - 08-26-2026

Quote:I don't think that's the whole story. I've seen people blame tool calling when the real issue was much more mundane. Worth testing the simpler explana

Interesting, I hadn't tried that. That matches what I saw on Threadripper box. I got better results once I stopped chasing one metric and just looked at whether the workflow felt usable.

If you post your exact settings, people here can probably narrow it down pretty fast.


Re: best sandbox for trying risky tools: anyone testing this? - rasterhall - 08-27-2026

Not sure I agree there. I get why that seems right, but on GB200 the bottleneck felt elsewhere. Not saying you're wrong, just that I wouldn't lock that in as the lesson yet.


Re: best sandbox for trying risky tools: anyone testing this? - cozykite - 08-28-2026

I'd approach it in a boring order. Before rebuilding anything, I'd test one clean baseline with Llama and compare from there. Once you know the plain path works, then add the faster path back in piece by piece.


Re: best sandbox for trying risky tools: anyone testing this? - plainline - 08-28-2026

What worked for me was pretty simple. If you're on SGLang, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious. A lot of these threads end up being one bad config plus a pile of conclusions drawn from it.


Re: best sandbox for trying risky tools: anyone testing this? - batchshed - 08-28-2026

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