The A.I. Daily
Local LLM community glimpses a golden era
A Reddit post says hardware shortages have pushed the local LLM community back into low-level optimization: forks of llama.cpp and Strix Halo's halogen-flash-server boosted Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (Q38FN) to about 52 tok/s decode and 1300 tok/s prefill. The author argues scarcity spurs learning and technical growth.