Bitter lesson for local LLMs: below 100 TPS, you won't actually use it
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-10-17
ML engineer Zach Mueller offers a bitter-lesson-style take: if your locally deployed model doesn't run at 100+ tokens per second, you probably won't keep using it. Throughput, not just quality, is the real gate for everyday local model use.
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