what made local AI click for you

[cacheplane98]

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 structured output.

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

[quiettoken]

Good point. The pattern around prefill/decode split has been pretty similar for me. The biggest change for me was simplifying the stack instead of adding one more optimization layer.