model fallback rules that work

[ggufvault]

Good point. 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.

[homelabhenry]

Good point. 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 optimiz

I don't think that's the whole story. I wouldn't optimize around that first. On my side the bigger swing came from the runtime and not the model. Could be a workload difference, but I wouldn't generalize too fast from one setup.

[papermixer4]

My first guess would be this: If you're on MLX, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious.