The issue isn't even 'quality' per se (for many tasks a small model would do fine), its for "agentic" workflows it _quickly_ runs out of context. Even 32GB VRAM is really very limiting.
And when I mean agentic, i mean something even like this - 'book a table from my emails', which involves looking at 5k+ tokens of emails, 5k tokens of search results, then confirming with the user etc. It's just not feasible on most hardware right now - even if the models are 1-2GB, you'll burn thru the rest in context so quickly.
And when I mean agentic, i mean something even like this - 'book a table from my emails', which involves looking at 5k+ tokens of emails, 5k tokens of search results, then confirming with the user etc. It's just not feasible on most hardware right now - even if the models are 1-2GB, you'll burn thru the rest in context so quickly.