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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried llama3.1:8b and it's absolutely horrible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can use larger "open" models through free or dirt-cheap APIs though.

TBH local LLMs are still kinda "meh" unless you have a high vram GPU. I agree that 8b is kinda underwhelming, but the step up to like Qwen 14B is enormous.