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Yes this is a recipe for extremely slow inference: I'm running a 2013 Mac Pro with 128gb of ram. I'm not optimizing for speed, I'm optimizing for aesthetics and intelligence :)

Anyway, what model would you recommend? I'm looking for something general-purpose but with solid programming skills. Ideally obliterated as well, I'm running this locally I might as well have all the freedoms. Thanks for the tips!

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[–] trave@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 38 minutes ago) (1 children)

oh and I'm running Ollama/OpenWebUI on Debian

[–] fredofredo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What are you using it for? Coding? How big context do you need?

[–] trave@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

some coding yeah but also want one that's just good 'general purpose' chat.

Not sure how much context... from what I've heard models kinda break down at super large context anyway? Though I'd love to have as large of a functional context as possible. I guess it's somewhat a tradeoff in ram usage as the context all gets loaded into memory?

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 minutes ago

Qwen 3 coder is the current top dog for coding afaik, there's a 30b size and something bigger but I can't remember what because I have no hope of running it lol. But I think the larger models have up to a million token context window.