someone just put this on my radar yesterday, im about to try this today. how's your experience with it?
me thinks there's a lot of optimization strats we're currently leaving on the table just because the amount of things to explore and test are so expansive. but this one is super interesting targeting metal primarily and zeroing in on one model. instead of a one size fits all llama.cpp im very interested to see if theres a future where super tailor-made variants per model pans out to harnesses that can rapidly switch ultimately providing something akin to sonnet/early opus territory (that's my personal bench mark of good-enough i shall now cancel the hell out of this claude sub)
I'm on the verge of cancelling my anthropic $20 plan since it's come out. On an M5 Max 128GB, hooked up to the pi.dev harness, I get in the neighborhood of 400-450tps prefill and 30-35tps generation. It is imminently usable and at times feels more stable than my previous CC setup. Occasionally there are things it struggles with that I will bounce back over to CC for, but it is highly usable. The future is bright for local models! As a tinkerer, it makes me really happy to have a local setup I can be just as productive in, and not have the token overlords ready to shut me down at any time.