Downloaded through LM Studio on an M1 Max 32GB, 26B A4B Q4_K_M

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https://i.postimg.cc/yNZzmGMM/Screenshot-2026-04-03-at-12-44...

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong?

This more or less reflects my experience with most local models over the last couple years (although admittedly most aren't anywhere near this bad). People keep saying they're useful and yet I can't get them to be consistently useful at all.

That usually means the framework (LMStudio, for you) is doing something wrong, and in a couple of days an update will come out that fixes that.