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Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.
I'm helping a small team set up a local workflow. We don't need a giant stack, but we do care about continuous batching.
Would rather learn from your scars than collect my own all at once.
trying not to rebuild again
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I hit almost the same issue last night.
Apple Silicon • MLX mostly
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My first guess would be this: Before rebuilding anything, I'd test one clean baseline with Mixtral and compare from there. A lot of these threads end up being one bad config plus a pile of conclusions drawn from it.
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I tested this tonight. My result was mixed: first run looked bad, second run looked normal. I expected the model choice to matter more than it did.
context windows are not a product strategy
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What exact setup are you running? What model, what runtime, and roughly what context size?
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Good point. I don't think your conclusion is far off. I got better results once I stopped chasing one metric and just looked at whether the workflow felt usable.
small models can still be good
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worth checking the driver first.
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following this because I'm in the same boat.
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I hit almost the same issue last night.
rack in the garage • local models everywhere