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the early 1.x versions of chad were tied to ornith. i still miss the speed of that moe. https://huggingface.co/nathansutton/Ornith-1.0-35B-UD-Q2_K_X...

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I skimmed chad the other day. There's very little to it (by design). afaics you should be able to replicate what chad does by copying the chad system prompt into a SYSTEM.md for Pi. Then you could use it with whatever model/provider you want.

pi is a fantastic harness! they are a good default in the same way llama.cpp is. it works with everything and that is the point.

i was steering chad in the opposite direction. one model & one set of silicon -> taken to the max. swap out your CHAD_MODEL and it still runs, you just leave the drafter and the kernels behind.

Love the idea…

Except the "one model" is too small for a 64GB Mac much less 128GB, sad since the Q3 is proven less competent.

Offering a Q boost (with no leave behinds) on first run would be a bump worth some vibe coding while.

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