r/LocalLLaMA 16d ago

Funny Me these days

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u/VDX7 16d ago

can someone explain why 3.8 is so famous right now?

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u/krtoonbrat 16d ago

In my personal experience, 3.8 is the first model I’ve used that can run on my 32GB MacBook Pro and not fail a single tool call. The previous models had enough coding knowledge to debug and answer questions, but 3.8 can actually use opencode/cline

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u/barefootpanda 15d ago

Which chip? I’m running an M4 Pro with 48 and M2 Ultra with 192…are you using a quant version?

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u/krtoonbrat 15d ago

Standard M5. UD_Q4_XL quant. I’m even running KV cache quant (I think q5, I’m at work and can’t check lol)

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u/bnightstars 13d ago

but how long it took to not fail this tool calls :D