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Is your engine lobotomizing your model? Kinda, and I measured it

I've been reading a lot about "engines lobotomizing the models they run", either because they quantize already quantized weights, or because they automatically turn on "hacky" flags to gain decode/prefill performance by default. I wanted to test this out by myself, not only with KLD but with real t…

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  1. 2026-10-31 14:14 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Is your engine lobotomizing your model? Kinda, and I measured it

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