Open-Weight Models Are Portable. Your Local LLM Stack Isn't
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TL;DR — Downloading open weights feels like portability, but the real deployable unit is a five-part tuple: weights, quantization recipe, runtime kernel, chat template, and tokenizer config. Most local AI setups only pin the first one, which is why the 'same model' produces different outputs on dif…
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- 2026-10-27 13:16 · DEV Community — AI
Open-Weight Models Are Portable. Your Local LLM Stack Isn't