routing between local and hosted for Gemma

[routecraft]

My first guess would be this: On M3 Max, the easiest win is often to back off the aggressive settings and see whether the problem survives. A lot of these threads end up being one bad config plus a pile of conclusions drawn from it.

[dockkite69]

I tested this tonight. I couldn't reproduce the slowdown until I pushed context much higher. The main thing that moved was latency, not quality.

[dockbrook21]

Maybe, but I had the opposite result. I get why that seems right, but on Threadripper box the bottleneck felt elsewhere. Not saying you're wrong, just that I wouldn't lock that in as the lesson yet.