Lambda engineer: local inference setups should exceed 50 tokens/sec to be usable
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-09-25
TheZachMueller added to his local inference build advice: leave enough headroom to make the setup "usable," meaning throughput should exceed 50 tokens/sec — otherwise it runs but the experience falls short.
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