Please keep off topic stuff in the Off Topic forum

[cozykite]

Interesting, I hadn't tried that. That matches what I saw on M3 Max. I got better results once I stopped chasing one metric and just looked at whether the workflow felt usable.

There are a few different conversations hiding inside this thread, so being explicit about the goal helps.

[Data Sculpting]

A couple questions before I guess too hard. Are you testing this on B200 or something else?

[mintstation99]

Maybe, but I had the opposite result. The reported numbers can look compelling, but in ordinary usage I didn't see the same benefit. Not saying you're wrong, just that I wouldn't lock that in as the lesson yet.

I'm happy to test one more variant if you want a second data point.

[fastscope]

Thanks, that helps. I ended up in about the same place using LM Studio. Worth rechecking your defaults though, because one bad assumption can make the rest of the thread look confusing.