> Models like ornith:9b, mistral:7b or cogito:14b can get the job done sometimes, but they are not fast and reliable enough for general use, specially if you have only 4GB of VRAM.
Have you considered/tried using a model that's, well, more appropriate size-wise for an use case like this? These are relatively big. Something like FunctionGemma [1] finetuned for a given set of tasks would be a lot more speedy.
[1] https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-...