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The Template Mattered More Than the Quant

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Ask anyone tuning local LLMs where quality lives and you'll hear about quantization. Q4 versus Q6 versus Q8, perplexity curves, "never go below Q5 for reasoning." It's the knob everyone debates because it's the knob with numbers attached. Here are my measured results on a 32B model, same benchmark…

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  1. 2026-09-08 18:18 · DEV Community — AI
    The Template Mattered More Than the Quant

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