Do Drafters Work on Small Models? Gemma 4 E2B and E4B on Two Small GPUs
This article provides a step by step guide to serving Gemma 4 E2B and E4B with Google's QAT assistant drafters through llama.cpp's speculative decod…
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Gemma 4's MTP Drafter, Explained: Speculative Decoding and a 4-Bit Drafter at 60% of the Size
This article provides a step by step introduction to speculative decoding with Gemma 4's multi-token prediction (MTP) drafter, served by llama.cpp o…
Ollama vs LM Studio 2026: Ollama Wins for Devs
Verdict: in the ollama vs lm studio decision, Ollama wins for developers and automation, and LM Studio wins for everyone else. If you are scripting…
llama.cpp vs Ollama in 2026: Which Runtime Should You Run?
Ollama and llama.cpp are often compared as if they were rival inference engines. The real choice is between a managed model service and a toolkit yo…
Two Rust Clients for Gemma 4: Calling the Endpoint vs. Calling the MCP Server 🦀
This article provides a step by step guide to two small Rust CLIs that ask a self-hosted Gemma 4 E2B the same question. The first calls the model's…
KV Cache on 16 GB GPUs: Making Long Context Actually Fit
A model can advertise a 128K context window and still fail at 40K tokens on a 16 GB GPU. The architecture ceiling never promised that weights, KV ca…
Can Qwen 3.8 running on your laptop really replace Claude Opus for Agentic coding?
Originally published at deepu.tech . When the whole AI coding frenzy started, I was still skeptical. Like most tech enthusiasts, I tried it but wasn…
Gemma 4 on an 2021 4 GB Laptop GPU: QAT Takes It From 9.5 GiB to 1.6
This article provides a step by step deployment guide for Gemma 4 E2B's quantization-aware-trained (QAT) checkpoint to a local, laptop hosted GPU en…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…