What's the value running the smaller model too? Why not just the big model for everything? I note both are dense, as well.

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Ritewut 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Tokens per second. The difference between 8B and something like 16B is not as big as you might think in practical usage and 8B is a lot faster and interactive than 16B but there are certain things where it is useful to farm it out to the large model.

	▲	Natalia724 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agree. For local coding help, latency often matters more than raw benchmark quality. A slightly weaker model that answers immediately changes how often you reach for it.