recipes for a good local stack

[bytehall]

Appreciate the detail. I ended up in about the same place using LM Studio. The biggest change for me was simplifying the stack instead of adding one more optimization layer.

[vectorport]

Appreciate the detail. I ended up in about the same place using LM Studio. The biggest change for me was simplifying the stack instead of adding one m

A couple things I'd check first. Before rebuilding anything, I'd test one clean baseline with FLUX and compare from there. Once you know the plain path works, then add the faster path back in piece by piece.