Fix Local LLM Quality: Context Stacking & Rope Freq Tweaks
This article was originally published on BuildZn . Everyone's running local LLMs now, which is great. But then they hit the wall: "Why does my 7B mo…
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"V cache quantization requires flash_attn" — the llama.cpp error that quietly halves your context window
I did not meet this error while debugging a crash. I met it while writing a calculator. llama_context: quantized V cache requires flash_attn to be e…
Nine ways to talk to a local model
A nine-tool survey of local-model interfaces on one GPU: what worked, what silently failed, and why what sits between you and the model matters more…
Running a 1.5B-Parameter LLM Entirely On-Device for Mental Health — The NilaMind Architecture
How I built a mental health companion that never connects to the internet, and why the most important safety decisions have nothing to do with the A…
llama-bench skipped FA on capable GPUs — b9437 corrects it
What flipped in b9437 Build b9437 , published on May 30, 2026 at 20:56 UTC , ships two targeted default-value corrections to llama-bench . Flash att…
How to Tune llama.cpp --n-gpu-layers: A Practical VRAM Guide (2026)
You already know what --n-gpu-layers does. It moves transformer layers onto your GPU. This post is the next step: how to actually pick the number. I…
How fast is LlamaStash? Overhead, throughput, and a fair comparison with Ollama and LM Studio
Originally published at deepu.tech . In my release post for LlamaStash I made a claim I need to back up. The wrapper adds zero overhead vs running l…
Benchmarking the Claude Agent SDK on a local LLM: Haiku and Sonnet tier performance
The Claude Agent SDK exposes three budget tiers ( haiku , sonnet , opus ) and reads its routing target from environment variables on every call. Tha…
Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B MTP vs Standard on 16GB GPU
I tested Speculative decoding (Multi-Token Prediction, MTP) performance in Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B on an RTX 4080 with 16 GB VRAM. For a broader view o…
Ollama vs llama.cpp vs vLLM: Which Should You Use in 2026?
From the Best GPU for LLM archive. The canonical version has interactive calculators, an up-to-date GPU comparison table, and live pricing. Three to…
Discontinued Optane Local LLM Powers a Kimi K2.5 Desktop Run
A user on r/LocalLLaMA reported on May 12 that an Optane local LLM desktop build ran Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 at about 4 tokens per second using discont…