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2026-08-07 12:28
I Kept Retrying a Local Model Into the Right Shape. Turns Out I Didn't Have To Retry At All.
The constraint on this one wasn't the AI part, it was the client: nothing leaves the device. No API calls, no cloud model, full stop, because the documents being classified weren't allowed off the machine they landed on. So the whole pipeline runs on a quantized model through llama.cpp, and its one job is boring on purpose - read a chunk of text, output exactly one of five category labels, nothing...