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The 8B Local Model Was Worse Than the 4B One

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I tried the obvious local-LLM upgrade on a small Mac mini: move from a 4B model to an 8B model. It was worse. The machine is an 8GB Apple Silicon mini running a personal assistant stack. The useful path was already working with mlx-community/Qwen3-4B-4bit through Swama's OpenAI-compatible endpoint:…

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  1. 2026-09-29 08:02 · DEV Community — AI
    The 8B Local Model Was Worse Than the 4B One

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