If every layer prefix is a valid model, why do we still pick a size at deploy time?
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I keep four checkpoints of the same family on disk: a 1.5B, an 8B, a 32B, and a 70B. Four training runs I didn't do, four eval suites I have to trust on faith, four quantized copies, four latency profiles, four rows in the cost table. And at request time I still can't answer the only question that…
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- 2026-09-29 14:38 · DEV Community — AI
If every layer prefix is a valid model, why do we still pick a size at deploy time?