Well, two things. First, “hi” isn’t a good prompt for these thinking models. They’ll have an identity crisis trying to answer it. Stupid, but it’s how it is. Stick to real questions.

Second, for the best performance on a Mac you want to use an MLX model.

Thanks! I assumed simpler == faster, but my ignorance is showing itself.

I am using the model they recommended in the blog post - which I assumed was using MLX?