when a plain Python stack is enough with Ollama

[labnest]

What worked for me was pretty simple. Before rebuilding anything, I'd test one clean baseline with Llama and compare from there.

I'd approach it in a boring order. If you're on Ollama, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious. A lot of these threads end up being one bad config plus a pile of conclusions drawn from it.

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